looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid
Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.
Make Your Own Grid Paper
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#32I 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.
Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine. Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.
The problem comes in the thin lines. If they don't fall exactly on the hardware pixel boundaries they will vary in weight. If you can get the printer to think in monochrome instead of some larger dithering cell you have a chance.
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#33I'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.
Or greenbar.
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#34Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.
Maybe not the idea itself but a method to print it?
Nope.
Claim 1: white-ish lines on light grey paper.
Claim 2: As above, but more closely matching white and grey.
Claim 3: Either of the above but with a slightly colored paper instead of gray.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
The description we find on websites about the services or products they sell, are in almost every single case pretty bad.
I always end up going to Wikipedia to understand what the company is selling.
Re: Make Your Own Grid Paper
#37How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine. Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.
The problem comes in the thin lines. If they don't fall exactly on the hardware pixel boundaries they will vary in weight. If you can get the printer to think in monochrome instead of some larger dithering cell you have a chance.
There's also that pesky bugaboo about being permitted to own a genuinely accurate printer, and whether or not you'd use it to counterfeit money.