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Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by famousactress »

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by vobios »

famousactress wrote: post #2

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

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Post by x43b »

This is a fun website. I made my own grid paper in undergrad. It started late one night after all the bookstores were closed and I ran out mid-problem in dynamics class. The Professor took off points for not using grid paper so I made my own out of Excel grids(I wrote on the flip side). I didn't lose any points and continued for the remainder of the semester. At the time, the university printer computer labs did not have a printer quota.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by Zikes »

I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper.

Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by nthitz »

http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.

Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper

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Post by bigd »

I'm assuming OP is the author:

very nice idea, very nice execution. Few things that imho need to be fixed (probably fast fixes): 1) Ensure that the print settings are correct. i.e. the pattern get splitted on two pages, for no reason. 2) resizing the browser window stretches/squeezes the picture. You shoud probably listen to the resize events and re-trigger the generation, change the patterns to some css, or simply set the generated image as cover. 3) translate the code in english. In softwares, having standards is a good thing.

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