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Title: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: pharoah007 on February 07, 2012, 08:10:34 pm

I am trying to print out one of these templates in actual size so I can move it around on my CP and finalize the hole locations.

http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html (http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html)

I can not seem to get the one I like to print to exact size?  I need all the holes to be 1 1/8th at the very least so I can plan my layout.


any help would be awesome.

Thanks all.

Title: Re: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: Nephasth on February 07, 2012, 08:17:21 pm

Quote from: slagcoin

These images are produced to scale. If you want to print them, note the PPI. For example, the first linked 300 PPI image is 2808 pixels wide. So to make a scale print, make sure the printer prints it 2808 / 300 = 9.36 inches wide. And if you want to change the spacing in the images by a certain scale, multiply this number by an appropriate percent. So for small buttons, 30mm spacing is an appropriate spacing; 30mm / 36.5mm = 82.2%; .822 * 9.36 = 7.69 inches wide. You need to figure how to place the joystick separately if you do this.

If you still can't get it to work, there's always the measurements from the layouts you can use to duplicate them.

Title: Re: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: BadMouth on February 07, 2012, 08:31:31 pm

Try printing it from a different program.  That friggin windows photo printer helper thing ruins everything  :angry:
In vista, I used Paint to print out things that I needed actual size.
Since they've updated paint for Win7, that might be ruined now too.

Title: Re: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: pharoah007 on February 07, 2012, 08:41:41 pm

Quote from: BadMouth on February 07, 2012, 08:31:31 pm

Try printing it from a different program.  That friggin windows photo printer helper thing ruins everything  :angry:
In vista, I used Paint to print out things that I needed actual size.
Since they've updated paint for Win7, that might be ruined now too.

I have a comp with 7 and a comp with XP.  I will try printing from them.

Thanks guys,  I will post my results.

Title: Re: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: abispac on February 07, 2012, 10:19:24 pm

when printing in real size, always use paint on any xp,vista o 7 computer, it works all the time, ...

Title: Re: What am I doing wrong? I can not get these templates to print to size???
Post by: pharoah007 on February 08, 2012, 04:16:44 pm

Thanks everyone.

I printed the layout in XP via Paint today and it worked perfect.

Thanks again.