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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
- Mayayana wrote:
See my other post. It looks right to me. Newts and "official" are centered, no? The right top corner piece will then overlap. You're probably correct on the size being right since it's "more" than 1/2 which is ok (as we have to overlap anyway due to the printer unprintable 1/4-inch margins). But PSP didn't give any option to print the other three pieces using the procedure I listed. So how do I get PSP to print the other 3 "pages"? |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
Eco Clean wrote:
- Eco Clean wrote: And why is the size completely wrong? Here is a photo of what the paper looks like next to the sign blank. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a35c4149 1ce3 What did I do wrong in following your exact steps? These projects always seem to take forever. 1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print It takes as many pages to print, as the JPG covers up. The more you scale the pixel count on your JPG, before you drop it into Calc, the more magnification that results, the more sheets that are used. In the example here, you can see my final PDF, and overlaid in the right pane, is the original "newt warning" sign. https://s13.postimg.org/9pvx1cbif/newts_in_my_shoes.gif The original photo is from here. I think the text above the picture says "what kind of dipping sauce goes good with these?" At least, that's how I analyze the animal kingdom - are you sweet and sour, or what ? http://okinawanaturephotography.com/...1/IMG_1237.jpg We used to have Salamanders in our city park. A ton of them. You could turn over a rock and find a couple underneath. Well, the changing environment got rid of all of them. A hurricane ripped the park to shreds. The dry conditions when there was no longer tree cover, eliminated any remaining Salamanders. And Salamanders only really liked that park. You'd have to go out into the woods somewhere, to find comparable conditions. The park had just the right glacial deposits (rough strewn boulders) plus rich forest tree cover to make a Salamander habitat. At least I got to see them, before they were gone. You didn't drive over those, because they were smart enough to stay in the park. Paul |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
Paul wrote:
These projects always seem to take forever. 1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print Create in LibreOffice Draw custom size paper, i.e. full scale 12"x18" Do Tile printing https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Print_2 -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
"Eco Clean" wrote
| So how do I get PSP to print the other 3 "pages"? Don't use PSP for the printing. It's limited in that respect. Use IV. But I think it would be better if you can cut up the quadrants. With the original open in PSP, measure out 4 equal quadrants, copy those, then Edit - Paste as new image. You should end up with 4 images about 600x900 each. Save each one separately: TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp Then open each in IV and print it, selecting a size of 6"x9". The result will be 4 pieces that can be taped together. no overlap. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
In article , Mayayana
wrote: Don't use PSP for the printing. It's limited in that respect. Use IV. But I think it would be better if you can cut up the quadrants. With the original open in PSP, measure out 4 equal quadrants, copy those, then Edit - Paste as new image. You should end up with 4 images about 600x900 each. Save each one separately: TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp Then open each in IV and print it, selecting a size of 6"x9". The result will be 4 pieces that can be taped together. no overlap. so much effort for such a simple task. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
- Jonathan N. Little wrote:
1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print Create in LibreOffice Draw custom size paper, i.e. full scale 12"x18" Do Tile printing I'll try Libre Office, but loading the PowerPointe into LibreOffice isn't as simple as I would have hoped, as I have to edit it tremendously just to get back where I was before I loaded the PowerPointe into LibreOffice. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...308fa9c 6530] Most likely LibreOffice doesn't respect PowerPointe format, so I have to start all over in LibreOffice from ground zero. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On Jan 13, 2018, Mayayana wrote
(in article ): "Eco Clean" wrote So how do I get PSP to print the other 3 "pages"? Don't use PSP for the printing. It's limited in that respect. Use IV. But I think it would be better if you can cut up the quadrants. With the original open in PSP, measure out 4 equal quadrants, copy those, then Edit - Paste as new image. You should end up with 4 images about 600x900 each. Save each one separately: TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp Are you trying to invoke TRUMP? Then open each in IV and print it, selecting a size of 6"x9". The result will be 4 pieces that can be taped together. no overlap. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
"Savageduck" wrote
| TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp | | Are you trying to invoke TRUMP? You have a dirty mind. |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
In article , nospam
wrote: Don't use PSP for the printing. It's limited in that respect. Use IV. But I think it would be better if you can cut up the quadrants. With the original open in PSP, measure out 4 equal quadrants, copy those, then Edit - Paste as new image. You should end up with 4 images about 600x900 each. Save each one separately: TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp Then open each in IV and print it, selecting a size of 6"x9". The result will be 4 pieces that can be taped together. no overlap. so much effort for such a simple task. https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5WXm.png http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRINT/E1280/706PMU5.GIF |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On Jan 13, 2018, Mayayana wrote
(in article ): wrote TL.bmp TR.bmp BL.bmp BR.bmp Are you trying to invoke TRUMP? You have a dirty mind. Hey! You were the one with the T R x M P letter combos. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
- Paul wrote:
1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print It takes as many pages to print, as the JPG covers up. I first tried to open the PowerPointe in Libre Office but that was a complete disaster, apparently because Libre Office doesn't respect PowerPointe formatting. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...308fa9c 6530] So then I did what you said. 1) I opened LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 (x64) on Windows 2) I clicked on the green "Calc Spreadsheet" on the left pane. 3) That brought up a blank spreadsheet 4) I dragged and dropped newt.bmp onto the spreadsheet 5) I moved the result to the top left corner. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a8bcda9 7dcf] 6) FilePrintPreview, but the margins are horrifically huge [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...67f1143 3148] 7) There are actually 9 pages to this but there really should only be 4 [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...4428ce2 5998] How did you the sample document from 9 pages down to only 4 pages? Is the trick to get 4 pages to reduce the margins manually? Or to reduce the image size? |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On 1/12/2018 10:35 PM, Eco Clean wrote:
Windows sign printing freeware? Does it exist? Exact example here uploads.im/YpuVv.jpg To spray paint plastic sign that are on 12 inches x 18 inches white stock. Goal is to create a life-sized cutout template on normal 8.5x11" paper. Then tape template on 12"x18" white plastic stock. Then spray paint letters of right size with red paint. If not special sign printing free software is there a trick to print a real size cutout template with a normal Windows 10 printer of multiple pages of 8.5x11 inch paper taped together by using a trick of some kind? Plan is to spray paint once I tape the life-sized paper templates over 12x18" plastic stock white boards. Dunno if this ancient program will work in Win10 (web page says it does work in Win7): Program: Printmaster Express Company: Broderbund Wa (Freeware) LFW (v 2.1) http://www.topfreeware.net/favprogra....htm#pmexpress You can create banners with the app and it sounds like that's what you want to do If memory serves me correctly it's pretty easy to use. . Susan -- Posted to alt.comp.freeware (using WinXP-SP2, Win7professional-32 bit) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pricelesswarehome.org |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
Eco Clean wrote:
- Jonathan N. Little wrote: 1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print Create in LibreOffice Draw custom size paper, i.e. full scale 12"x18" Do Tile printing I'll try Libre Office, but loading the PowerPointe into LibreOffice isn't as simple as I would have hoped, as I have to edit it tremendously just to get back where I was before I loaded the PowerPointe into LibreOffice. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...308fa9c 6530] Most likely LibreOffice doesn't respect PowerPointe format, so I have to start all over in LibreOffice from ground zero. LibreOffice's "PowerPoint" is Impress not Draw. If you were making a graphic then PowerPoint was the wrong too to start with. PowerPoint is for presentations...multiple "slides". I would try exporting PowerPoint slide as PDF then import PDF into LibreOffice Draw. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
Eco Clean wrote:
- Paul wrote: 1) Open LibreOffice Calc. 2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet. 3) Print It takes as many pages to print, as the JPG covers up. I first tried to open the PowerPointe in Libre Office but that was a complete disaster, apparently because Libre Office doesn't respect PowerPointe formatting. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...308fa9c 6530] So then I did what you said. 1) I opened LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 (x64) on Windows 2) I clicked on the green "Calc Spreadsheet" on the left pane. 3) That brought up a blank spreadsheet 4) I dragged and dropped newt.bmp onto the spreadsheet 5) I moved the result to the top left corner. [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a8bcda9 7dcf] 6) FilePrintPreview, but the margins are horrifically huge [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...67f1143 3148] 7) There are actually 9 pages to this but there really should only be 4 [http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...4428ce2 5998] How did you the sample document from 9 pages down to only 4 pages? Is the trick to get 4 pages to reduce the margins manually? Or to reduce the image size? Using the usual scroll wheel and control key trick, zoom out the Calc spreadsheet window, until you can see the 8.5x11 page delimiter lines. Go to the lower right corner of the image. Click the image to select it. Press the control key (to cause X:Y to be locked together for proportional scaling). Now, move that corner up and to the left to resize the image as it lays on the spreadsheet. You might be able to make out, that now my image is laid within the bounds of four typewriter pages. https://s13.postimg.org/62kr8y83r/gr...oportional.gif A side effect is, Export To PDF still stupidly printed 9 pages, even though 4 pages of content are there. I suspect the original image is (conceptually) still hiding in the environment somewhere. You may be able to use another PDF tool to eliminate the extra pages. As long as the pages are sequential (no gaps), simply printing page range 1-4 might be sufficient to avoid wasting paper. Anyway, that's a breadcrumb to doing this easily. I can't vouch for how useful the output doc will be :-( https://s13.postimg.org/ys7n5q9kn/my_export_pdf.gif Paul |
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Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:38:23 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote: "Eco Clean" wrote | Anyways, I don't have Paint Shop Pro, but I have Irfanview. | You should be able to get PSP5 he http://www.oldversion.com/windows/do...-shop-pro-5-01 I just downloaded and tried starting the installer. It worked fine. I bought PSP5 for $100 many years ago. Since then I've bought PSP16. Unfortunately, the latter is bloated and clunky. Overproduced. I still use 5 for basic things. The versions online seem to be perfectly legal. In fact, at one point Jasc was giving older versions away with things like routers, before Corel bought them out. IrfanView is very good and solid but it lacks one critical thing: A work window where you can wortk on multiple images , paste layers, have multiple undo, etc. IV might be able to cut up the image, but it's worth having PSP or a similar editor. BMP is best. JPG loses data. GIF is 256 colors, so it might dither. | Maybe 100 ppi? Using that as an example, you | would then resize to 1200 x 1800 pixels. | | That's the kind of math I was seaking! | You just have to match it up to the printer. For instance, a typical photo should be printed at least 300 dpi. Not on the 'photo' Epsons. They use 360 dpi. It pays to check the dpi of the printer you plan to use. That means to get a 5x7 print you need 1500x2100 pixels. It doesn't matter what size the image is and what dpi the printer is set for. You just need to coordinate the two so that it will print the size you intend. 300 dpi will give you nicer edges on letters, but I guess that probably doesn't matter much. | The plan is to print to 8.5x11 paper and thentape it all together, and then | put thin sheets of clear 8.5x11 plastic sheets taped together underneath, | and then cut out the "stencil" with an Exacto knife and then spray the | signs. | Makes sense. | Yes. A few dozen. It's really a joke for an eccentric neighbor's 80th | birthday, where we plan on having someone take her to see a movie while we | erect signs all over her yard based on her oddities. | You're very generous with your time. How do you feel about yard work? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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