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How to print the DIY planner in Europe

19 July 2005 by Frank Meeuwsen

OK, yeah, I confess. I recently started to use the “DIY planner Hipster PDA version”:http://www.douglasjohnston.net/weblog/archives/2005/06/11/diyp2_hipsterpda/ from A Million Monkeys Typing. Just trying it out in conjuncture with my Moleskine to see where it leads me. So far, it’s been pretty handy. Making some notes during a short meeting with some direct NA’s on it, using it a shopping list in my wallet, jotting down some ideas on the bus. Again, it’s a tool to use besides something else for me. It is not the tool or the holy grail. What I found troubling about the downloadable templates, is they all use the American system for printsizes. OK, listen up: In Europe we don’t have indexcard sizes like 3×5 inch. We use the A-system (or whatever it’s called) and we have indexcards in A7 size. Or A6, whatever you prefer. A7 equals to 74 x 105 mm which comes to 2,9 x 4,1 inch. So the templates are too big. I was too lazy to fire up Fireworks and sort out how to resize the templates, so I just changed the printersettings to print the PDF’s in a proper size. So to all Europeans who want to print the Hipster templates, here’s the trick: In Acrobat, go to your printersettings and open the printer properties. I have a HP deskjet 5150. Your own printersetting will differ from mine. First, make sure your papersize is set at “Indexcard (3×5 inch)”. You might want to make a customsize of it. Then look for Resizing options in your settings and change them to 85%. This will resize your template to 85% and it will fit on A7-index cards. Now I look forward to anyone changing the original png-files to A7 format as well. Or perhaps Doug Johnson will do this himself 😉

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  1. m3 says

    19 July 2005 at 1:10 pm

    According to Wikipedia:
    The international standard is ISO 216, which defines amongst others, A4. ISO paper sizes are all based on a single aspect ratio of the square root of two, 1:1.4142.
    The largest standard size, A0, has an area of 1 m².

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