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| DMIOM:
--- Quote from: Meldonmech on March 02, 2016, 01:58:48 PM ---.........so I took a full size photocopy..... --- End quote --- David, forgive me for mentioning this as I'm sure you'll have checked, but for anyone else reading - some photocopiers can slightly alter the size of a copy so its not 1:1, and more reprehensible are those multi-function devices with a scanner & printer which scan & print, quite often with a slight reduction in size to fit the whole of a scanned A4 page onto an A4 sheet where the printer can't quite reach all the margins. Dave |
| Meldonmech:
Hi Dave Thanks for pointing out problems with distortions when photocopying from books. Luckily the plates drawings in the book covered a double A4 size, and proved to be true size when 1:1 copying. However many of the detail drawings in the book look to be full size and are not, this is going to make a lot of extra work as they will need to be re drawn before they can be used. Cheers David |
| awemawson:
Presumably the detail drawings have at least one dimension on them? Scan them then zoom until the scale is correct and print them. |
| Meldonmech:
Hi Andrew Thanks for your suggestion, got a new all in one printer, for my Birthday last week, have not even unwrapped it yet, been too busy trying to make some headway on the clock. I must have a break and read up on the facilities, could save a lot of time if will zoom. Cheers David |
| DMIOM:
David - you can zoom using it in "copier" mode but steps (typically 1%) may be too coarse, and actually you don't need printer or scanner to zoom - as Andrew alluded, just scan it to an image, open the file and then adjust the magnification/scaling before printing. Dave M. |
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