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I figured that much out for myself. Turns out you can open pdf files in Gimp and copy/paste just the bits you need to a new document.
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Nice Beaver! I got into computer flight simming in the mid 1980's and pursued it for about 30 years. Flew pretty much everything at one time or another and developed a particular fondness for DeHavilland's wonderful bush planes. They were popular in the flight simming community and there were some very nice models available. |
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Next question. I'm thinking I should get something to help with cutting accurate right angles. Any reason not to go with a standard carpenter's square?
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On the second page of this article, I included a photo of some of my set squares (the smaller ones): https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb43-3/t...on-ellipse.pdf |
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The metal ruler and the set square I mentioned for scoring are the same ones I use for cutting most of the time. However, I like to use artists' papers, in particular watercolor paper. Partly for their appearance and working properties and partly for the sake of permanence. 100% rag paper doesn't contain acid and won't turn brown and fall apart. There is also non-acidic paper that isn't 100% rag. I use different grades of paper depending on the purpose.
The point is, with these kinds of papers it's often better to tear rather than cut. The result often looks better and it saves on x-acto blades. It is essential to score the paper thoroughly and to tear carefully. A folding bone or something similar is also essential, fingernails don't do a good enough job. I always tear toward the middle; if you try to tear past an edge, it's very easy to tear off a corner. |
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pdfdetach - Portable Document Format (PDF) document embedded file extractor (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdfdetach [options] [PDF-file] DESCRIPTION Pdfdetach lists or extracts embedded files (attachments) from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. pdfdetach is a utility that comes along with others such as pdfunite and pdfseparate, which I use more often. I think they're included in TeXLive but they may have come from somewhere else. They should not be hard to find, though. |
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Most metal rulers have cork material on the bottom side to stop movement. Since I use a rotary quilt cutter for the long cuts, don't worry about cutting the plastic, the additional height of the plastic helps guide the cutter. I do use my Xacto knife with the plastic, once again the vertical height of the plastic insures a 90degree cut, not angled which can mess with edge gluing in certain joints. Mike |
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The carpenter's rulers I use are solid stainless steel and don't have any cork or other material on them to prevent slipping. However, they are very heavy, which helps a lot. I have two, 40cm and 60cm. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any comparable products in a long time. I bought a rotary cutter recently but I haven't tried it out yet. I'm not sure I could cut as accurately with it as with an x-acto knife. |
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You'll enjoy how smoothly the rotary cut! Stays sharp forever and doesn't cut as deeply into the cutting mat like you can with the X-acto when using to much force. Mike |
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