Tramper Al
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Hi,
In my ongoing battle with paper shroud construction and a burgeoning fleet of Centuri exotic clones, I have laid in a supply of card stock paper and white glue and am printing shrouds from the old pdf, tif, and jpg sources. These are the ones uploaded to JimZ and Ye Olde along with the original instructions. They most often do not include a ruler or other reference measure.
Now of course I'll be able to check after the fact when they do or do not fit the relevant body tubes. But is there a quick and easy method to make a best guess at printing them in the original correct size? My KC-8 Orion attempt today nearly fills the 8.5x11 sheet and it looks like I am going for some kind of 3x upscale. Which would be nice, but I am not.
With a pdf, I seem to have the ability (through Properties) to learn the size of each page (often different and smaller than 8.5x11) and then at the printing step to print actual size (which did make my SST Shuttle nozzle and cockpit page quite a bit smaller. With a tif, I seem not to be able to learn the page size. And if I open a tif with Acrobat as a pdf, it gets even bigger. Now my Orion shroud needs 4 pages to print, and the rocket would certainly require a motor for which I am not certified.
Thanks!
In my ongoing battle with paper shroud construction and a burgeoning fleet of Centuri exotic clones, I have laid in a supply of card stock paper and white glue and am printing shrouds from the old pdf, tif, and jpg sources. These are the ones uploaded to JimZ and Ye Olde along with the original instructions. They most often do not include a ruler or other reference measure.
Now of course I'll be able to check after the fact when they do or do not fit the relevant body tubes. But is there a quick and easy method to make a best guess at printing them in the original correct size? My KC-8 Orion attempt today nearly fills the 8.5x11 sheet and it looks like I am going for some kind of 3x upscale. Which would be nice, but I am not.
With a pdf, I seem to have the ability (through Properties) to learn the size of each page (often different and smaller than 8.5x11) and then at the printing step to print actual size (which did make my SST Shuttle nozzle and cockpit page quite a bit smaller. With a tif, I seem not to be able to learn the page size. And if I open a tif with Acrobat as a pdf, it gets even bigger. Now my Orion shroud needs 4 pages to print, and the rocket would certainly require a motor for which I am not certified.
Thanks!