Make Your Own Grid Paper • Hacker News Board

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by psychometry » Sat, May 03, 2014, 3:21 AM UTC

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by mikhuang » Sat, May 03, 2014, 3:31 AM UTC

looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by jws » Sat, May 03, 2014, 3:36 AM UTC

I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by xrt » Sat, May 03, 2014, 4:30 AM UTC

This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by easyfree37 » Sat, May 03, 2014, 4:36 AM UTC

Thank you.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by robotys » Sat, May 03, 2014, 5:16 AM UTC

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

And i've just thought about this like yesterday on my own.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by slang800 » Sat, May 03, 2014, 6:25 AM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #11

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...

The 2300USD listing is from some separate seller called "Stork Group", not Whitelines. And they describe it as "Brand new and unread!", so they probably have no idea what the item is.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by metaverse0 » Sat, May 03, 2014, 6:34 AM UTC

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

Beautiful. Can someone please make a printable version...

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by aye » Sat, May 03, 2014, 6:51 AM UTC

psychometry wrote: post #11

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...

Not to mention the fact that they do a terrible idea conveying what they're actually selling -- there's nothing that says simply "it's grey paper with white lines."

"On Whitelines there is no visual interference between the lines and the pen colour."

So, the lines on the paper are different depending on the color of the ink I'm writing with?

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by aye » Sat, May 03, 2014, 7:09 AM UTC

metaverse0 wrote: post #18

mayoff wrote: post #7

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/

Beautiful. Can someone please make a printable version...

    .line {
        background: rgb(233, 233, 233);
        height: 3.125em;
        border: 0.25em solid white;
        width: 100%;    
    }