On Thursday 06 June 2013 20:55:12 TJoseph Powderly did opine: > > 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
Reading the descriptions, I installed scribus. It can blow it up ok, but when I asked for a printout, what would fit n one page at the size I had zoomed was all the printer gave me. Next, I'll see if poster can deal with an svg file for input. I did hit the posterazor site, but it mentions a trial period and never did tell me how much. And pdfposter would need the thing made into a pdf to start with. Possibly something can be worked out. I was hoping there was a plugin for scibus, but if there is, its not in the buntu repo. > 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 Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Death wish, n.: The only wish that always comes true, whether or not one wishes it to. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
