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Posted: 3 Apr 2008 19:32 |
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Richard_Benn click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images spacer.gif |
I have a layout plan based on 5 long narrow boards that are set an an angle to each other so that they form five sides of an octagon. I have the baseboards drawn as background shapes. Each board should print out on 4 A4 sheets of paper but Templot wants to print out 32 pages many of which would be mostly blank and would be a pain to paste together. I thought about grouping all the templates together and rotating them in order to align each board in turn with the paper but it doesn't seem possible to include the background shapes with the grouped items so I would lose the board alignment. I have also looked for a way to move the location of the printed pages around the pad but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to accomplish this? On a related note, even though I have ticked the option to include background shapes in the print out, Templot does not offer to print a page that contains only a background shape but no track. I'm not sure if this is intentional or a bug.
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I have also looked for a way to move the location of the printed pages around the pad but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this.SHIFT+CTRL+F10 move page origin mouse action to do it by eye, or print > page orientation / origin > set page origin... menu item to set the page origin at a specific location on the grid.
On a related note, even though I have ticked the option to include background shapes in the print out, Templot does not offer to print a page that contains only a background shape but no track. I'm not sure if this is intentional or a bug.It's intentional, not to print pages which don't contain track. Easily defeated -- just add a short bit of dummy template on any empty page you want printed. I do mean short. A "centre-line only" template which is only 1mm long will be almost invisible.
I thought about grouping all the templates together and rotating them in order to align each board in turn with the paper but it doesn't seem possible to include the background shapes with the grouped items so I would lose the board alignment.You can rotate all the background shapes, but it has to be done separately from the templates. It's therefore necessary to do it by entering the angle directly, rather than by mouse action, so that you can enter the same angle exactly for both.
Posted: 3 Apr 2008 22:20 |
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Richard_Benn click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images spacer.gif |
Thanks. Rotating the templates and background shapes separately looks like it will work. It would be nice to be able to group select background shapes as well though :-)
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