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posted: 18 Dec 2011 23:58 from: Jim Guthrie
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I've just got a new use for the TDV which might help others out. I got a very large .GIF file of a station building plan from the Caledonian Railway archive. I much prefer working from paper plans and I looked at some way of printing it out - like using PaintShopPro or Gimp to split the file into individual bits to print on A4 or A3 paper. But it would have been difficult to get the printing scale on each printed sheet. Then I thought about the TDV, converted the .GIF to .PNG and imported the file as an image, adjusted it to be about A1 size, put a couple of plain track templates across it with rails and timbers turned off, then printed out to A3 PDF, printed the lot out on A3 paper, and joined them all together. I've now got my A1 drawing.  Jim. |
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