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From: "Kamal Shankar" <kbshankar2000@...>
To: <eaglecad@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 3:08 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Printing many small PCBs on a single A4 paper


>I have a lot of small graphics/pictures as PS files
> which I want to embed/convert into a single PS/PDF
> file so that I can print out all the graphics in one
> sheet instead of one small graphic per sheet.
>
> The individual graphics are on the average 1/10 the
> size of A4 and I want to print as many of them as
> possible on a single A4 sheet without changing their
> original size/scale. (100%)
>
> Actually, the "graphics" are PCB layouts output by
> EAGLE in PS format. I use the toner transfer method to
> make my own PCBs and so I want to consolidate as many
> small PCBs as possible in a single A4 Glossy paper
> sheet.
>
> How do I do that ?
>
> I have access to Adobe Acrobat Prof. 6.0 and the GNU
> Ghostscript set of tools.

What I used to do with Easy-PC was to copy/paste the individual PCBs into a
larger PCB and print that. If you output them as Gerber files you might be
able to use GC-Prevue to panellise them.

Leon

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