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Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] RE: Printer scale accuracy and blackness.

From: "Boman33" <boman33@...>
Date: 2013-11-12

Terry,

I also have Canvas.  For people not familiar with the program it is like a combination of AutoCAD and Photoshop.

 

Version 11 for the PC, and I assume Mac, has independent high resolution scaling.  I just scaled a sample 100.5 in X and 99.5% in Y and it worked as expected.

 

AutoCAD has a printer/Plotter calibrate option and I did not check Canvas but I would expect that there is an independent printer calibration option so the original data can be left untouched.

 

For Gerber printing the GC-Preview will allow independent scaling.

Bertho

 

From:  Terry Mickelson   Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 21:07

On 11-Nov-13, at 12:42 PM, Boman33 wrote:

Note, some software allows independent scaling of both X & Y to compensate for printer or plotter errors.

Bertho

 I'm using Deneba's Canvas™ which I have used for years now because it doesn't break. I use the software for my renovations and PCB's and radio chassis assemblies, on a Mac. It does it all including the setting of the printout to any percentage but only in whole numbers. 100.5% just isn't there.

Terry Mickelson