On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:20 PM, John Coppens wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:15:34 -0400 > Rob Butts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I print out the etch pattern to make a home-made card the pins don't >> line up. > > How are you printing? Using postscript? Or via another program - maybe > GIMP or so? Does that program have a fit-to-page function, which might > change the scale? Are you printing a letter format PCB onto an A4 > page? > Think along those lines.
I have a printer that will do this scaling too. Times this hits me as well. > I've hit my head many times because some of the intermediate steps > would > try to be too intelligent. If all that fails, make a 1" by 1" square > (or so) and look at each step if the size remains 1000x1000 mils. Some > programs that change postscript to bitraster to print it, take into > account screen resolution (80ppi/90ppi etc), and mess things up. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
