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How to configure Firefox for PDF Printing

Kosher Patterns — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:52:15 +0000

This is a generic demo that shows you how to configure your Firefox browser for PDF viewing and printing. It is shown in context of My Sloper.

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How to Draw Pattern Using Landscape or Portrait Page Orientation

Kosher Patterns — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:20:06 +0000

My Sloper Pattern Making Software for Modest Dressmaking is versatile in that it lets you configure your pattern printing in either Landscape or Portrait page orientation. Learn how easy it is to do this.

The default page orientation for all the patterns is Landscape.

Default Page Orientation

Take a look at this sample pattern in Landscape mode.

Pattern exceeds page boundary in Landscape mode.

You probably want to reprint this pattern to appear inside the page boundary. So, select the Portrait Page Orientation.

Select Portrait mode.

Redraw the pattern by clicking on the Draw button.

Pattern in Portrait Page Orientation within the page boundary.

That’s all there is to it. Hopefully, b’eH (b’ezras Hashem) with the help of G-d, we will work on the ability to drag your pattern blocks to fit within as many pages as possible in Version 2.0 of My Sloper.

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How to Save My Sloper Patterns

Kosher Patterns — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:17:48 +0000

After rendering a sloper pattern on the Web browser, My Sloper gives you the option of saving the pattern onto PDF files. Here is a demo of what to expect when you are ready to save your pattern.

The following video is a little outdated but is useful for what to expect when you print/save your pattern.

My Sloper 1.7+ prints two types of files — a Pattern Summary and a Pattern file. For Jackets and Dresses, the front and back sloper patterns are printed separately in their respective files. The expected behavior of saving a pattern varies depending on your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera). On the latest Chrome 42, a dialog will appear to ask you for permission to download or save more than one file. When this happens, all you have to do is click ‘Allow’ to download multiple files. This behavior is only apparent on Chrome 42. Neither Firefox nor Opera exhibits such behavior.

Click Allow to save multiple pattern files.

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How to Print a Pattern

Kosher Patterns — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:17:00 +0000

How to Print a Pattern

This tutorial shows you how to easily print your pattern that is drafted on My Sloper to a PDF file. The pattern drafting layer is a new addition to My Sloper and is equipped with zooming facilities and 1-click page selecting features.

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How to Align Printed Pattern Pages from My Sloper

Kosher Patterns — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:14:00 +0000

My Sloper lets you save a copy of the drafted pattern into a PDF file. You can configure the page format and orientation of the PDF file. You can choose A4 or Letter for page format and either Landscape or Portrait for page orientation.

Each page in the PDF file is labeled with a Letter followed by a number. This mirrors the labelling on the pattern grid. Examples include A1, B2, C3, A2, B1, C1, etc. The letter represents a row and the number represents a column. For example, pages that begin with letter A represent the first top row of a grid, and each number after the letter represents the column for that row. The label A1 refers to the page on row 1 and column 1 of the grid; the label C4 refers to row 3 and column 4 of the grid. What you see on the pattern grid is what you will get in the PDF pages.

Pattern on Page A1

Loose PDF Pages

The PDF file generator prints out the bodice pattern according to the ordering of column followed by the row for easier assembly. For example, A1, B1, C1, etc. See the accompanying picture for the page ordering in a PDF file.

Assembled PDF Patterns

To assemble a bodice, all you have to do is attach the printed pages together based on their labels. The following picture shows you how easy it is to do so. You don’t have to align any internal markers. You simply tape over the shared borders of the pages and proceed to cut up the pattern. It’s that easy!

Note that before printing the PDF file, you have to select the pages to print. See this tutorial on how to print your PDF pattern. Here are simple tips to produce quality PDF Pattern printing:

Choose “NO SCALING” or “100% Fit”. Do not scale the pattern so that what you print is what you see on the PDF file.
Choose “MINIMUM PRINTER MARGIN” to get the most optimum result. Each printer comes with a preset printing margin which you can configure to minimize this margin so that your printed pattern is clear along the borders of the page.
If pattern borders on a page, or its edge is too close to a page border, chances are, your printer margin is going to prevent the pattern edge from being printed. In this case, switch to a different PDF Page Orientation in My Sloper. For example, if you are in Landscape mode right now, switch it to Portrait, and vice versa.

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How to Align Printed Patterns

Kosher Patterns — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:03:00 +0000

Before My Sloper was born, we designed and graded our patterns using a commercial software package. This package generates PDF patterns that have margins along the border. Assembling these patterns are not hard as long as the printed pages and the margins align. Here is a tutorial that shows you how to align these printed pages.

When you print your PDF pattern, you need to configure your printer settings to “No Scaling” or “Actual Size” depending on your printer. Here are a couple of snapshots of configurations based on different PDF viewers.

When you have your pattern printed, you will notice that each page has alignment markers on each of its four corners. To align the pages, follow these steps.

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