Joe W. Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Thought I'd share a "Duh - dope slap" moment with you in hopes it helps someone not have the same experience. . . So there I was . . . printing off a Steve Good pattern using Inkscape to make the cutting lines red. The pattern: "Baseball Teams" consists of 4 pieces - a base with slots and three other pieces with tabs to fit into the base plate. I discovered that if I turned the Printer's "Borderless" setting to "on" the pattern on the printed page is stretched 1/4". I learned this after cutting out one of the pieces with tabs and found the tabs would not line up with the corresponding base slots. It baffled me for a time until I realized the page of the base plate was printed using the printers "Borderless" setting set to off - and the other pieces were printed on a different page with the Borderless setting set to "on". It had me going for awhile, but after some experimenting I got the "Aha" (translation: You dummy!). crupiea, OCtoolguy, TexasDIY and 2 others 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preprius Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 These reminders are great. Thanks. I also found a setting to keep the object aspect ratio. It should be set by default. But it is not. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 I have not had that problem before as I don't mess much with the preset settings. But if I ever do what you did by mistake, I now know what to do about it. thanks for sharing. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab4 Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Hi Joe: We should have a separate forum called "That "AHA" moment We could all learn a few things from Villagers being a bunch of "AHA's" It's always funny when it happens to someone else Thanks for sharing your AHA moment with us Fab4 OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don in brooklin on Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Fab4 said: Hi Joe: We should have a separate forum called "That "AHA" moment We could all learn a few things from Villagers being a bunch of "AHA's" It's always funny when it happens to someone else Thanks for sharing your AHA moment with us Fab4 I would second that we should have an area were we put those AHA moments. Just after I read this I was altering Steve Good's Post from today. Instead of "If Gramma is missing" I wanted to put If Tony is missing. (A good friend) I opened Steve's Pattern and drew circle and put text on circle. It was backwards. I did everything I could think of and then AHA. Took pattern and copied to a new document. Then worked like a charm. I have had this occur before. I think between Corel Draw and Inkscape something happens with the PDF. I had this before and forgot this should be done. Now I will remember. I will post when I have cut. Fab4 and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjweb Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Joe W, can you explain how you take a steve good pattern and put in inkscape, and then change to red lines, I don’t know how to even get the pattern into inkscape, sorry not real good with these programs, thx RJ OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don in brooklin on Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, rjweb said: Joe W, can you explain how you take a steve good pattern and put in inkscape, and then change to red lines, I don’t know how to even get the pattern into inkscape, sorry not real good with these programs, thx RJ Here is a quick PDF that explains the process. Steve explains the process he uses to get the pattern into Inscape. Either Import or Open will work.https://youtu.be/hh4JwEjCL8Y if you have specific questions please PM. red line in inkscape.pdf Edited July 18, 2021 by don in brooklin on OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjweb Posted July 18, 2021 Report Share Posted July 18, 2021 Thx Don, pm sent, RJ OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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