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Main => Project Arcade - the book! => Topic started by: bigdady92 on May 24, 2004, 08:35:56 am

Title: How do i print the templates?
Post by: bigdady92 on May 24, 2004, 08:35:56 am

Ok on chapter 6 there's the layout templates. I TRIED printing them out in the following programs:

MS Paint
MS Photoeditor
Internet Explorer
PaintShop Pro 8 (whatever is on the CD)

and for the LIFE of me I cannot get the %!@#%@#$%@% templates to print to scale! The spinner prints out 4 inches instead of the 6! The joystick at 2 inches! I tried in PSP to get it to print at 100% and still can't get it to work!

What am I doing wrong?!?? Please helpm me!

Title: Re:How do i print the templates?
Post by: AlanS17 on May 24, 2004, 06:35:42 pm

What format are the images in?

Title: Re:How do i print the templates?
Post by: bigdady92 on May 24, 2004, 08:04:30 pm

.jpg

Title: Re: How do i print the templates?
Post by: bossyman15 on February 11, 2006, 12:02:47 am

bump! i need to know as well!

Title: Re: How do i print the templates?
Post by: AtomSmasher on February 11, 2006, 01:16:52 am

Odd, MS paint worked perfectly for me.  It automatically tiled the image and printed it out perfectly.  You could always just take it to kinkos and have them print it, it'll only cost $3-5 if its in black and white and it'll all be on one big sheet.  I'd recommend bringing a ruler to make sure the size is accurate when you go to pick it up though.

Title: Re: How do i print the templates?
Post by: markrvp on February 25, 2006, 07:10:48 pm

Some programs like Adobe Photoshop give you the option of PRINT SCALING when you print.  If you have this option on your program, then you want to make sure that 100% is entered for the scale and make sure you UNCHECK "Scale to Fit Media."

(Scale to Fit Media basically enlarges the image to be as big as possible on the sheet of paper which is bad wheen printing templates that need to be an exact size.)