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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Printing many small PCBs on a single A4 paper

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2006-05-16

On Tue, 16 May 2006 16:42:26 +0200, Kamal Shankar
<kbshankar2000@...> wrote:

> I was hacking around with Paintshop today :
> Opened up the .PS in Paintshop, and copied the PCBs
> into a single sheet but on different layers.
> What I noticed though was that there was considerable
> distortion in the picture - edges were jagged and
> traces were un-uniform....
> I think it will be better if I manipulate the .PS or
> HPGL files directly, instead of converting them to
> pictures and then printing them.. maintaining the
> scaling correctly ishard work too when you are working
> with pictures, as I see it.
> Never ever worked with PSP before though, never
> required to
> Hope this problem works out...


If you use raster images you need to make sure everything is at printer
resolution and stays that way.
If for some reason it is resized/resampled it will be made a mess off.

ST