[Ham-Mac] Making Panel Meter Scale Replacements

Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:58:14 -0400

>Hmmmmm...a Mac (or PC) couldn't you use a simple draw/paint program? Like 
>Paint or Painter?
>
>de WA7MLD, Marv, Vancouver WA

Not too simple.

The usual problem with paint programs is pixelation: an arc for the scale will look "jaggy" unless the painting is created very large and printed in reduction.
The drawing programs sometimes lack things like fitting text along an arbitrary curve.

It is difficult to get professional quality results without Postscript or CAD.

Almost any Mac drawing program will give very good results. The better programs make it quick and easy.

David
N1EXQ

>>From: KL�S <[email protected]>
>>Reply-To: [email protected]
>>To: Mail List - Ham Mac <[email protected]>
>>Subject: Re: [Ham-Mac] Making Panel Meter Scale Replacements
>>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:27:10 -0400
>>
>>Well, after I posted my plea for help I went back to my files and found an
>>article from the August 1998 issue of CQ VHF that describes how to use MS
>>Word to create dial scales....am still plodding my way thru but think this
>>is probably the answer for this one time project.  Have to make a few
>>translations between the PC version of Word and the Mac flavor but looks
>>like it's pretty doable.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Dino KL�S/4

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