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[Bill in Detroit]

I was going to recommend the exact same remedy. It's free. It works. What's not to love? ;-)

[alexy]

I use openoffice, but have never used the draw program. For what he is doing, pdfcreator (open source) acts as a virtual printer, letting you print from any program to a pdf file. But Charlie uses a mac, and I don't know if this program is available for the mac.

[flip+]

My wife, who is a mac-natic, claims that at least newer versions (she has 10.3 or 10.4 I think) have "print to pdf" built into the system.

I've also seen windows print drivers that will write pdf to file. Then of course, there is Ghostscript and it's derivatives... but being a two step process (print to PostScript, then covert with Ghostscript) it's not as simple.

So, how do other folks use printing in their woodworking? I've made flexi rulers for wraping around things... (if you figure even a crappy laser printer is 300dpi, the resulting ruler would at least be .003 accurate. ;) I've also made some specialty "scale" rulers in different ratios. (1:10, 1:12, etc) In Stained Glass, I've designed patterns which then could be directly applied to the glass... i suppose same could also apply to wood... esp for small scroll work, or internal holes. Perhaps it could be good for a transfer for layout point in carving or woodburning... Then of course, there are those folks using the printer directly on the wood. essential CNC woodburning... but that's less craft and more production. (although the craft/art aspect might be in the design being burnt)