Think Jays Galactica is lonely, need some help

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micahrogers

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Ok large format printing from Staples for this will be $45 might as well buy the resin kit :-( If is shrink it on the printer to fit letter size it would be 91% of original size, which would be about what scale? also would the stand still fit it? will all the pages of parts print shrunk the same amount?
 

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Ok large format printing from Staples for this will be $45 might as well buy the resin kit :-( If is shrink it on the printer to fit letter size it would be 91% of original size, which would be about what scale? also would the stand still fit it? will all the pages of parts print shrunk the same amount?

When you say large format, what size paper do you mean?
If you print all pages at the same scale the stand will still fit the model.

I see your issue though; there's a few pages that have parts cut off at the bottom if the A4 size pattern is printed on letter without scaling.

@ Revell-Fan - I've started doing my developments on A4 as well, but in Pepakura I set the top and bottom margins to 15mm and don't get too close to the bottom with parts. If you set the margins to 20mm you fit letter size paper easily, but I find it leaves too much white space at the top of the page. You can set it to 20mm temporarily, see if anything is sticking over the bottom margin, and then set it back to 15 though. It's a nice quick double check.

Steve
 

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When you say large format, what size paper do you mean?
If you print all pages at the same scale the stand will still fit the model.

I see your issue though; there's a few pages that have parts cut off at the bottom if the A4 size pattern is printed on letter without scaling.

@ Revell-Fan - I've started doing my developments on A4 as well, but in Pepakura I set the top and bottom margins to 15mm and don't get too close to the bottom with parts. If you set the margins to 20mm you fit letter size paper easily, but I find it leaves too much white space at the top of the page. You can set it to 20mm temporarily, see if anything is sticking over the bottom margin, and then set it back to 15 though. It's a nice quick double check.

Steve

That's a good idea! I'll give it a try with my next kits. :thumb:
 

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Staples print guy said to print full size A4 here they would have to print on 11"X 17" cardstock and trim it down.
 

DanBKing

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I got the parts sheets for my MedEvac Raptor printed at Staples.
We struggled to get it to fit correctly on A4 as the guy said that his printer MUST have a margin around the print, and this resulted in having some parts cut off at the edges.
I ended up printing the parts on A3 to make sure everything fit. He very kindly only charged me for A4.:mrgreen::thumb:
 

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I got the parts sheets for my MedEvac Raptor printed at Staples.
We struggled to get it to fit correctly on A4 as the guy said that his printer MUST have a margin around the print, and this resulted in having some parts cut off at the edges.
I ended up printing the parts on A3 to make sure everything fit. He very kindly only charged me for A4.:mrgreen::thumb:

If you can get A4 card stock from Staples, (and if you have a printer as well) you can print it out yourself. Just set the PDF settings for "page scale" to NONE. That way, you will not have anything "CUT OFF".

Good luck with your build. I am looking forward to seeing it.
 
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Just for reference. Photoshop is a great way to take a .pdf apart and rearrange the parts to work for what you need. :)
 

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If you have difficulty printing my kits on letter size paper you are free to extract the pages and re-arrange them in your favourite graphic program. I recommend PDFill PDF Tools (Free) for converting the *.pdfs into *.jpgs and vice versa ( http://www.pdfill.com/ ) and TheGimp for editing the image files ( http://www.gimp.org ).
 

Lisac1606

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If you have difficulty printing my kits on letter size paper you are free to extract the pages and re-arrange them in your favourite graphic program. I recommend PDFill PDF Tools (Free) for converting the *.pdfs into *.jpgs and vice versa ( http://www.pdfill.com/ ) and TheGimp for editing the image files ( http://www.gimp.org ).

Thanks for the info! Someone mentioned Photoshop, but the last time I checked it was quite expensive...
 

sjsquirrel

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Thanks for the info! Someone mentioned Photoshop, but the last time I checked it was quite expensive...

If there is a specific model you would like reformatted just tell me which one and I would be happy to do it. Most (all?) of Revell-Fan's Battlestar Galactica models are also hosted on my website, so I would then add it to the downloads there so people can download either size.

And for what it's worth, Gimp (Gimp.org) can actually read PDF files directly. I've created a blank letter sized template that I open as another layer with the model I'm rearranging and then I have a nice guide to move things around.

Steve
 

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Hi Steve! I'll send you the ones which haven't been added to your DL section soon.
 

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