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- From: willy@mercury.interpath.net (William Callis - Personal Account)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: how to do precision work on Dpaint
- Date: 12 Jan 1996 11:24:01 GMT
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- singh (singh@wwa.com) wrote:
- : In article <4d19uc$rq@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, mcdeath@ix.netcom.com
- : (Emmanuel Olympia ) wrote:
-
- : > when working with Dpaint, I sometimes wish that it had rulers on the
- : > side just like other paint programs. And unfortunately, the
- : > coordinates is efficient enough to solve this problem. Has anyone done
- : > any precision work in Dpaint that involved precise measurements? How
- : > do you get around this problem?
- : >
- I do a lot of freelance work for the textile industry using Brilliance
- but the same rules should apply for dpaint.
-
- The quick and dirty way to quickly measure things is to make some rulers
- and save them as brushes. Draw 2 points in space, count the number of
- pixel between them, print it out, measure it, save the brush with a name
- that will remind you how many inches it prints out to.
-
- Bill
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