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Fatwah on Western Digital
A client of mine has a plotter. An enormously expensive, two month old , 48" wide plotter. They use the plotter to print blueprints, sometimes, and posters.
At least, that was the plan.
They have gobs more money than sense and no one there actually knows how to use the plotter. Or much of anything else for that matter.
What they're doing right now to print blueprints is opening them in Corel Draw version 7, which was probably made in about 1998, and re-sizing the PDF to fit the width of their page (48"). This makes something that looks like stretched out ass, and is especially bad for blueprints. They are doing this in Corel Draw 7 because it's the only thing their "graphics guy" knows how to use.
I suspect there's a better way to do this. I don't really know, since everyone else I know who has a plotter is just printing CAD stuff on it.
If I had any particular motivation, I guess I could download various graphics packages and try them, but I don't, especially since doing so might bring me in to contact with Adobe products. Therefore, rather than doing any research into the subject, I'm just going to ask those of you who putz around with graphics software more than I do if there's any particular package that's better for scaling and re-sizing PDFs.
At least, that was the plan.
They have gobs more money than sense and no one there actually knows how to use the plotter. Or much of anything else for that matter.
What they're doing right now to print blueprints is opening them in Corel Draw version 7, which was probably made in about 1998, and re-sizing the PDF to fit the width of their page (48"). This makes something that looks like stretched out ass, and is especially bad for blueprints. They are doing this in Corel Draw 7 because it's the only thing their "graphics guy" knows how to use.
I suspect there's a better way to do this. I don't really know, since everyone else I know who has a plotter is just printing CAD stuff on it.
If I had any particular motivation, I guess I could download various graphics packages and try them, but I don't, especially since doing so might bring me in to contact with Adobe products. Therefore, rather than doing any research into the subject, I'm just going to ask those of you who putz around with graphics software more than I do if there's any particular package that's better for scaling and re-sizing PDFs.
