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Apron Cards/Printing

By rcbrown316

2 years ago

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#1 2 years ago

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rcbrown316

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Greetings,
I found this post which has amazing content: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-apron-cards-printable-versions-only

But I am evidently not smart enough to figure out how to print out cards at the proper size. I tried installing this stuff and using dimensions from pinball rebel but it's just way over my head:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-apron-cards-printable-versions-only/page/9#post-5216048

Use this link for card sizes per mfg:
http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/Card_sizes.htm

I also tried to use a simple photo editing tool (paint) to shrink the image size down to 700 Pixels by 415 according to Pinball Rebel:
http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/
But it turned it into a postage stamp.

In my case i am trying to do these two cards for Shadow to start with but i have about 7 other games that need new cards. Any help/direction for simplifying the process would be greatly appreciated!

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#2 2 years ago

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punkin

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There's pretty clear instructions and sizing guides for different manufacturers in the first post you linked. What is the issue that's confusing you with those instructions?

Open this link and find your game.
http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/Card_sizes.htm

Go into print and choose resize to millimeters, type in the size for the cards that you want, make sure it's not auto scaling (uncheck the box) and click print.

#3 2 years ago

ROB

rcbrown316

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Webster, NY

9y 81,300 3,688 22 10

Quoted from punkin:
There's pretty clear instructions and sizing guides for different manufacturers in the first post you linked. What is the issue that's confusing you with those instructions?
Open this link and find your game.
http://www.pinballrebel.com/pinball/cards/Card_sizes.htm
Go into print and choose resize to millimeters, type in the size for the cards that you want, make sure it's not auto scaling (uncheck the box) and click print.

Hey there,
Thanks for the quick response. In the print setting off the windows photo viewer I dont see that resizing in mm is available. It shows some default template sizes e.g 7"x5", 6"x4" etc. I have a canon printer that has all kind of tools available and i havent dug into that yet so I will do that next and see if i can locate what you suggested.

What was confusing me was the autohotkey, script, imagemagick setup. I'm just not adept at that stuff in my windows based world.

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#4 2 years ago

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Quoted from rcbrown316:
Hey there,
Thanks for the quick response. In the print setting off the windows photo viewer I dont see that resizing in mm is available. It shows some default template sizes e.g 7"x5", 6"x4" etc. I have a canon printer that has all kind of tools available and i havent dug into that yet so I will do that next and see if i can locate what you suggested.
What was confusing me was the autohotkey, script, imagemagick setup. I'm just not adept at that stuff in my windows based world.[quoted image]

I can't do that either.

Download paint.net it's free, simple to use and i have it as default image editor.

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In this case, uncheck maintain aspect ratio, go from pixels to inches, change inches to mmm and type in the size. Resave as imagesized and click print.

#5 2 years ago

ROB

rcbrown316

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9y 81,300 3,688 22 10

Quoted from punkin:
I can't do that either.
Download paint.net it's free, simple to use and i have it as default image editor.
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In this case, uncheck maintain aspect ratio, go from pixels to inches, change inches to mmm and type in the size. Resave as imagesized and click print.

Thanks. Just tried it. It seems like i have the correct size but when I go to print it the printer setting change the output. I have to choose the paper size which is standard 8.5" x 11" glossy photo paper. Last time i changed the to 4x6 photo paper and got close but it still came out at 6" x 3.25

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