> On Jun 6 2013 3:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings Guys; >> >> Someone mentioned that rockhopper can make .pdf >> s somehow, and those of coarse can be scaled. >> >> Since I now own an HL3170CDW color laser printer, what steps does it >> take >> to do this, blowing my lathe .hal file up into at least a 6 page >> output? ...
>> Thanks for any help on rockhopper. >> >> Cheers, Gene >> Gene, fwiw try pdfposter or posterazor or poster or scribus all available from synaptic i may have lots of repositories enabled but one of those oughtta be availble to you all of the print huge posters on std letter paper ready to be taped together i dont print stuff anymore , but when i worked on big hal diagrams i used similar tools and taped the sheets together yes, a big problem with such diagrams is size and scale when its small enough to overview you cant see the problem point when you can see the problem point you cant see the overview :| maybe some of the newer 'lensing' code may help ( fisheye zooms a bit, leaving the overall view as well ) btw svg is zoomable/panable so maybe you could use a good svg viewer rather than a pc of paper. up to you. also organizing hal work in 'sheets', hierarchically, like old orcad, helps regards tomp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
