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9 Sheet Target Proof of Concept
I just got done assembling my latest target design with spray glue on a 24x35 sheet of cardboard to see it full size, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to post a picture of what these piece-together targets look like when assembled. Margins are trimmed off to make a seamless picture. If you also trim the right and left sides, this would fit on the 4 18"x 34" cardboard backers you can cut out of a Home Depot box for $1.50 or so. Bella the Boston Terrier is photobombing for scale.
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A better mousetrap for multiple page printing.
I've been experimenting and it turns out that my 9 sheet PDFs are really unnecessary as there is a better way to print multiple sheets from the full size target file.
Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the full size pdf, open the print dialog, hit the "Poster" button and choose these settings.
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You can also change the printer to "Print to PDF" to make a broken up document. As long as the tile scale is set to 100%, the target dimensions will remain unchanged and to scale. If your dialog box looks different, upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader.
Another way that works is if you have Microsoft publisher. Create a new Publisher document that is the same size as the PDF, insert the PDF, resize it to cover the entire page, and then hit print. If your paper size is set to Letter, Publisher will automatically split into multiple sheets. You can select to do the 9 sheet layout instead of 8 by changing back to portrait mode, whereas Adobe Reader doesn't have that option.
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