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General Discussion / Re: how to print. Some degree of success ---
« on: March 17, 2010, 07:23:02 PM »
I succeeded in installing Ghostscript from here
http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/list?q=label:Featured
The file for Windows to download is gs871w32.exe and it installs fine
Then export to .jpeg works, but export to .gif does not (creates an empty file)
Export to .pdf creates a file that Adobe reader 9 will not open. Says the file is corrupt.
I can print the .jpeg file: Only problem now is - scaling is a nightmare.
Instead of keeping the page size (A4) the drawing is expanded to fill the page.
For example, a single . "period" becomes an 8" diameter black disc.
To stop this, you can put a rectangle around the A4 outline, so the drawing size is now the page size.
Unfortunately, when printing the resulting .jpeg, something puts a 0.25" borser all around, so the result is still shrunk and not real size.
A drawing program must be capable of printing drawings in exact real size. I hope to use WinFIG to produce a paper template for a piece-part, and I will stock the template to a sheet of material and then cut round it. I also hope to use WinFIG to draw printed circuit patterns, and then print them real size on a transparency for photo etching. However, I there seem to be a lot of sclaing issues to achieve real size.
Can anybody share their progress on this matter?
http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/list?q=label:Featured
The file for Windows to download is gs871w32.exe and it installs fine
Then export to .jpeg works, but export to .gif does not (creates an empty file)
Export to .pdf creates a file that Adobe reader 9 will not open. Says the file is corrupt.
I can print the .jpeg file: Only problem now is - scaling is a nightmare.
Instead of keeping the page size (A4) the drawing is expanded to fill the page.
For example, a single . "period" becomes an 8" diameter black disc.
To stop this, you can put a rectangle around the A4 outline, so the drawing size is now the page size.
Unfortunately, when printing the resulting .jpeg, something puts a 0.25" borser all around, so the result is still shrunk and not real size.
A drawing program must be capable of printing drawings in exact real size. I hope to use WinFIG to produce a paper template for a piece-part, and I will stock the template to a sheet of material and then cut round it. I also hope to use WinFIG to draw printed circuit patterns, and then print them real size on a transparency for photo etching. However, I there seem to be a lot of sclaing issues to achieve real size.
Can anybody share their progress on this matter?