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Title: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: User Death Imminent on May 18, 2013, 08:09:50 am

Hi folks,

Noobie here.  On my first build an at the control panel stage.  Got Happ Competitions and Happ Ultimate buttons on the way next month.  Going to choose one of the layouts on Slagcoin's excellent site but I don't understand his explanation of how to print these to scale.  Can anyone help?  Is there another site I could use where I could find ready to print pdf files?  Here is the page:  http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html (http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout.html)  Many thanks in advance!

Henry

Title: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: monkeychunkuk on May 18, 2013, 08:25:27 am

If you don't use photoshop it can be tricky,all i do with PS is open a new file change the dimensions to match my cab sizes and place the image i want to use onto that, if you have a link to your desired art and cab size irony mind doing this for you.

Steve


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Title: Re: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: User Death Imminent on May 18, 2013, 08:41:36 am

Quote from: monkeychunkuk on May 18, 2013, 08:25:27 am

If you don't use photoshop it can be tricky,all i do with PS is open a new file change the dimensions to match my cab sizes and place the image i want to use onto that, if you have a link to your desired art and cab size irony mind doing this for you.

Steve


(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f225/imlived/podcastlogo_zpsc5a2f0fa.jpg) (http://"http://www.nerdjackers.com")

Steve you are a star!  I have a free copy of photoshop CS2 that Adobe were giving away recently and it worked an absolute treat!

Many thanks

Henry

Title: Re: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: BadMouth on May 18, 2013, 04:34:20 pm

If it's smaller than a sheet of paper less your margins, ms paint is still capable of printing actual size.
Make sure the dpi is correct and select "Adjust to 100% actual size" under print options.

Useful enough for button groups anyway.

Title: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: monkeychunkuk on May 21, 2013, 04:53:32 am

Quote from: User Death Imminent on May 18, 2013, 08:41:36 am

Quote from: monkeychunkuk on May 18, 2013, 08:25:27 am

If you don't use photoshop it can be tricky,all i do with PS is open a new file change the dimensions to match my cab sizes and place the image i want to use onto that, if you have a link to your desired art and cab size irony mind doing this for you.

Steve


(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f225/imlived/podcastlogo_zpsc5a2f0fa.jpg) (http://"http://www.nerdjackers.com")

Steve you are a star!  I have a free copy of photoshop CS2 that Adobe were giving away recently and it worked an absolute treat!

Many thanks

Henry

Glad i could help


(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f225/imlived/podcastlogo_zpsc5a2f0fa.jpg) (http://"http://www.nerdjackers.com")

Title: Re: Printing a control panel layout to scale?
Post by: Afterburner on May 21, 2013, 08:13:33 am

I run CAD at work and have found that normal office laser printers often don't print completely to scale.

For my CP I ended up doing a test print with some trammel points (I.e. registration marks) that I could measure on the print.  Then I scaled up or down as required in the printer settings and printed again.