Does anybody have an Inkscape PNC registration mark template

[fairwayflunkie]

Purty please!!!!! I'm trying to do a simple print and cut following this video (which is great by the way...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXS5p5ZYRk

But she starts with three layers...registration, print followed by cut...I've tried to find the registration file to add in my inkscape templates but to no avail...

TIA

[Thyme]

Here you go

[fairwayflunkie]

I must be a dunce because this opens as an XML file...when I download it download as a MS Word file...oy....!

[fairwayflunkie]

Okay I got it to download...is this on an A4 size? Is there an easy way of changing in the US letter size? ooh ooh and how do I save it as a template...man I need a book...

I know I'm a pain...so sorry...

[Phyllis]

Nancy in Inkscape you can change your paper to letter size, File - Document Properties. Then you can move the registration in twos to make them fit on the letter size page better. You cannot shrink the marks, they have to remain the same size. You'll have to ungroup and then regroup two of them and move them that way. Then regroup all of them. I am having a brain lock on how I got the template into the Inkscape menu,

If any of you experts on here know of any other way, please correct me.

[Thyme]

Thanks Phyllis, you got all that exactly right.
If you are on PC then use save as to save to this folder - Inkscape/share/templates

[Gigi]

To save the template in Inkscape - go to Program files (x86) (if using Windows 7)> 0r just Program Files if in XP > Inkscape > Share > Templates -

Then you can name it anything you want so you will know what it is. I have my calibration template there and my PNC template there as well.

Hope that helps.

[fairwayflunkie]

I'm on a Mac...and I did open it and save it...now I have to move the registration marks ala Phyllis...oy and I had done the trace and all yikes...of course it printed bloody huge LOL...I'll get this figured out if it kills me...hehehe

[fairwayflunkie]

Okay that is done...I've printed with the registration marks on it and now the nail bitting begins...I've got to google how signcut reads registration marks...hopefully I'll be done by midnight...LOL

[Phyllis]

Nancy, please let us know how it works. I'm on a Mac also.

[fairwayflunkie]

Welll...I'm watching Dawn's video on the Black Cat UK forum and I've calibrated I think??? put I don't have the same tool bar on top of signcut....so maybe I need to upgrade signcut??? dunno...I'll keep searching....

[Phyllis]

Hey, you did it before midnight. Congrats. Post your successful cut. I would think you are on the correct version of Signcut if it was just installed recently but that would be a Dawn question.

[Thyme]

Welll...I'm watching Dawn's video on the Black Cat UK forum and I've calibrated I think??? put I don't have the same tool bar on top of signcut....so maybe I need to upgrade signcut??? dunno...I'll keep searching....

The video was done showing the pc version.
With the mac your tool bar is where it always is - right at the top of your screen

[fairwayflunkie]

Well duh....I was looking at top of the window...going to bed now and will try it again tomorrow...didn't make it until midnight....

[Thyme]

Lol, wishing you better luck tomorrow

[fairwayflunkie]

Well here I am at it again...signcut has frozen up now I know that I can do ctr-alt-delete in windows but how do I stop it in MAC?

[fairwayflunkie]

Have I mentioned lately that I love google Let's try it again...will report back....

[fairwayflunkie]

Oy not good... Do the registration marks have to be a certain distance from each other, like...I paired the upper ones and moved them down the paired the bottom ones and I think left them in the same position should I try to move them by the same amount? In other words (in portrait) do the two upper marks have to be a certain distance from the bottom two?

[Barbara]

So long as they are stll lined up you can move them two at a time either up or outbut they must remain line3d uo./ Hope this makes sense.
Barbara

[Thyme]

Well here I am at it again...signcut has frozen up now I know that I can do ctr-alt-delete in windows but how do I stop it in MAC?

Click on the apple and choose force quit