I have designed a double-sided board that I now want to print out on to the transfer material for use in the toner transfer PC creation method. (I've used this in the past for single sided boards OK).
To make sure both sides of the board are aligned, I want to print then at the same time onto the transfer material with a bit of a space in between so I can fold the material over, line up the top and bottom "holes" and then slip the board in between before running it through the laminator. To do this, I need to transfer the top and bottom images onto the same "document" page and this is where I'm running into some problems. I have tried to create plot files using both the "PostScript" and "PostScript A4" options but they both create "full page" sized surrounding boxes when I try to import them into Pages so I can combine them into a single print "document". I've also tried using photoshop to trim the images down to the "right size" (the board is about 5cm x 5cm) which results in a much smaller image but the "rasterizing File" (sic) process seems to result in jagged edges to some of the lines. (The funny thing is that these lines tend to be the vertical and horizontal lines so I don't think this is an anti-aliasing effect). All of this is done at 1200 pixels/inch. I've tried saving as TIFF and BMP formatted files I'm looking for help from others who have managed to combine the images of both sides successfully as to how to achieve this. I am using the Kicad OSX V 2505 build(but I don't this this is question is version related). Thanks Susan
