RE my post the other day about printing out The Lace Maker cross stitch pattern...
I should have run it through once before I posted. Usually Word will fit a graphic to a page within the margins you set. This one isn't cooperating. ; ) The pattern on the website is made up of 3 graphics files. Put side by side they are the full picture. The best way to print it out so you could see it would be to download a free program called IrfanView. It's a free download and a very stripped down knock-off of PhotoShop. I've used it for years and love it for lacemaking...more about that later. http://www.irfanview.com/ Make sure you also download the plug-ins. Once you have this downloaded, open it. Go to the window with the pattern. Right click on the pattern section and select Copy. Go into IrfanView and select Paste. Your first piece will be in IrfanView. To save the file, click on File / Save As. It's in a .pdf format. It will be easier to work with if you save it as either a .gif or .jpg format. Name the file, then go to the field below that says Save As Type and select either .gif or .jpg. The advantage to this is that you can eventually insert these files into a Word document so you have them all in one place. The default setting is View / Display Options (window mode) / Fit Window to Image 1:1. In this case, leave it on this setting. The beauty of this program is the Crop feature. This will allow you to divide the graphic up into pieces that will be easy to work with. Put your cursor in the upper left of the IrfanView window. Click and drag across the whole picture and down to the bottom right. Along the top bar you'll see numbers indicating how many pixels wide the picture is. It will read i.e. (Selection: 1,1; 851 x 2861; 0.298) The numbers to pay attention to are the ones in the 851 position, which is your width, and the 2861 position, which is your length. NOTE: The numbers shown will depend on the resolution your screen is set to. Mine is set at 1440x900, which is a high resolution. Anyway... Once you've established the size, you can then proceed to cut it into equal pieces. I made my first one 426 x 715. That in effect cut it in half across and went down 1/4 of the way. Go into the Edit menu and select Crop Selection. You'll now have just the section you selected. Click on File / Save As and name it... i.e. Lacemaker1a.gif Go to File / Open and re-open the original file. You'll have to reopen it for each piece. To establish where to start the second piece, start in the upper left and click and drag over the first row until your pixel count reads i.e. 426. Note where that is. Click again to clear your selection. Put your cursor at the 426 point and click and drag down until your pixel count reads 715 then drag to the right to complete the rectangle. File / Save As and name it...i.e. Lacemaker1b.gif Open the original file again. This time start in the upper left and drag straight down to establish where to start your second piece at 930. Once you've found pixel row 930, click to clear your selection. Start at pixel row 715 and click and drag right til your pixel count is 426, then drag down til it's 715 again. Go into the Edit menu and click on Crop Selection. Repeat until you have it cut and saved in 8 pieces. To print...File / Print. Select your paper size...letter or A4. Under Print Size, select Original Size. Look at the print preview over on the right of the window and make sure it fits the page. Set the margins to .5. You can center if you want. Set Units to inches. Check the Preiview window again. Adjust if needed. This may seem a bit complicated, but once you've done it a few times it will be easy to do. It's late and I need to get to bed. There's a lot more you can do with IrfanView when it comes to lace patterns. I'll write more about it later. Peg in Fairview Park OH where the cicadas and crickets are serenading me...loudly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G: What is it you want? D: Freedom... to want nothing... to expect nothing... to depend on nothing. from THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
