Fab4 Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, BadBob said: Changing your display settings doesn't have anything to do with printing. I worked in IT for over 30 years. Printers can be a pain to deal with. My educated guess guess is that the problem is either your printer, driver, or printer settings. Hi Bob Printing is not the problem - it's getting the size right on what shows up and what actually prints - I agree with what you are saying though This is just like everything else when it comes to technology - Some get through it with no problems and others struggle. We are on different systems and it looks like you will have to find what works for you when a problem occurs - It's been an interesting topic, Thanks to all who replied - Now, let's get back to our regular scheduled program and move on - I think Ray got what he was after. Fab4 Edited January 11, 2022 by Fab4 OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Not really but working on it. Thanks to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Just to update, I have tried many things so far and this time I tried creating a circle at 4.5" in Inkscape and saving it as a .pdf file. I opened it in Acrobat and printed it but it still comes out 1/16" too small. So, with that said, I give up. If anybody can come up with a suggestion beyond what has already been tried, I'm open for most anything. Thanks again to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 11, 2022 Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 Just to eliminate Inkscape as having the issue, can you create a circle in another program (like MS Word) and print it out? Before I found Inkscape I used Word to create patterns of basic shapes. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Dan said: Just to eliminate Inkscape as having the issue, can you create a circle in another program (like MS Word) and print it out? Before I found Inkscape I used Word to create patterns of basic shapes. I will try that Dan. Thanks. Actually, I'm not familiar with Word. In fact my version is 2003. I just made a circle in Word but I have no idea how to size it. Can you illuminate me. Keep in mind that I'm old. And slow. And cantankerous. And....... Edited January 12, 2022 by OCtoolguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 50 minutes ago, OCtoolguy said: I will try that Dan. Thanks. Actually, I'm not familiar with Word. In fact my version is 2003. I just made a circle in Word but I have no idea how to size it. Can you illuminate me. Keep in mind that I'm old. And slow. And cantankerous. And....... I'm with you. I will try to remember how to do it in 2003 version. If you right click on the circle, you should be able to select Format Shape. One of the tabs or fields should be size (height and width). You can change by typing in the value you want. My version is came with the computer I bought last year. I went from 2007 to 2020 and I get lost in the Microsoft products. Good luck. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Dan said: I'm with you. I will try to remember how to do it in 2003 version. If you right click on the circle, you should be able to select Format Shape. One of the tabs or fields should be size (height and width). You can change by typing in the value you want. My version is came with the computer I bought last year. I went from 2007 to 2020 and I get lost in the Microsoft products. Good luck. I guess that's why I never use it. I use Xcell for spread sheets but that's about it. Thanks Dan. I'll give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, OCtoolguy said: I guess that's why I never use it. I use Xcell for spread sheets but that's about it. Thanks Dan. I'll give it a try. Ok, I managed to get a circle in Word at 4.75". I printed it out and it printed about 1/32nd small. Just under 4.75". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr42 Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 25 minutes ago, OCtoolguy said: Ok, I managed to get a circle in Word at 4.75". I printed it out and it printed about 1/32nd small. Just under 4.75". check in pattern making, look under my post sizing problem with inkscape when printing, see Don's post as it took care of the problem for me. it was a setting when I was printing. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadBob Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 What is the brand and model of your printer? OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab4 Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 16 hours ago, OCtoolguy said: Not really but working on it. Thanks to all. Sorry about that Ray, I thought I read in a previous post that you got what you were looking for Good Luck Fab4 OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 6 hours ago, BadBob said: What is the brand and model of your printer? Brother all-in-one color laser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 5 hours ago, OCtoolguy said: Brother all-in-one color laser I have a Brother all-in-one laser, model HL-3180 CDW. A crappy printer for photos but it does provide me with accurate circles. At this point I can only suggest the following method: Put you right foot in, take your right foot out. Put you right foot in and shake it all about. If that doesn't work If you do that your prints may not be accurate, but you can do the Hokey Pokey. Fab4 and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 26 minutes ago, Dan said: I have a Brother all-in-one laser, model HL-3180 CDW. A crappy printer for photos but it does provide me with accurate circles. At this point I can only suggest the following method: Put you right foot in, take your right foot out. Put you right foot in and shake it all about. If that doesn't work If you do that your prints may not be accurate, but you can do the Hokey Pokey. Yeah, that's about where I'm at. I did find a good set of videos on youtube that explain Inkscape. I'm watching yet more of them. At some point, I'll know all the basics. Understanding them, probably not. My laser printer is Brother model MFC-9130CW. It prints really great. Not meant for photos though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wichman Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Ray, when you open the document properties menu, do you have the option to "resize page to content" ? it should be File > Document properties= pop up dialogue box Within the dialogue box: Page> General> display units (in)> page size (us letter)> orientation (portrait)> custom size (width, height, units) just underneath this (within the same thin line connecting them) is a right arrow (black triangle) that is labeled resize page to content. If you select this it take you to the margin adjustments. Have you tried tweaking these adjustments? OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 16 hours ago, Wichman said: Ray, when you open the document properties menu, do you have the option to "resize page to content" ? it should be File > Document properties= pop up dialogue box Within the dialogue box: Page> General> display units (in)> page size (us letter)> orientation (portrait)> custom size (width, height, units) just underneath this (within the same thin line connecting them) is a right arrow (black triangle) that is labeled resize page to content. If you select this it take you to the margin adjustments. Have you tried tweaking these adjustments? No, thanks. I will check it out. Way too many settings between Inkscape and printer setup. Seems like there should be some form of standardization after all these years. Maybe I'm just to old to absorb all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Ok, I found what you referred to. I have no margins set so what should that setting be? I clicked on the box that says to resize page to selection but I have no idea what it does. If anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wichman Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 39 minutes ago, OCtoolguy said: Ok, I found what you referred to. I have no margins set so what should that setting be? I clicked on the box that says to resize page to selection but I have no idea what it does. If anything. If your printer can't do edge to edge printing, then you can this sub menu to account for that. If you had the margins set to 1/2 inch all around the page (you don't) then using the "resize to page" would shrink the image a small amount. So, this is not the issue. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wichman Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, OCtoolguy said: No, thanks. I will check it out. Way too many settings between Inkscape and printer setup. Seems like there should be some form of standardization after all these years. Maybe I'm just to old to absorb all of them. In other (expensive)( Coreldraw) programs most of these issues are taken care of by a "printer properties" file, Inkscape does not have this, neither does GIMP. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 I put in a request for help with the Brother support team. I tried to explain my problem and I can only hope they can offer some fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clocks and more Posted February 23, 2022 Report Share Posted February 23, 2022 If I want change the size of a pattern I Bought a Proportional Scale. It works out just fine. I have no connection with them The C-Thru Ruler Co. in Ct. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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