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Make Your Own Grid Paper

100 points| quodestabsurdum | 12 years ago |gridzzly.com

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[+] mayoff|12 years ago|reply
My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/
[+] nacs|12 years ago|reply
They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.
[+] robotys|12 years ago|reply
And i've just thought about this like yesterday on my own.
[+] metaverse0|12 years ago|reply
Beautiful. Can someone please make a printable version...
[+] x43b|12 years ago|reply
This is a fun website. I made my own grid paper in undergrad. It started late one night after all the bookstores were closed and I ran out mid-problem in dynamics class. The Professor took off points for not using grid paper so I made my own out of Excel grids(I wrote on the flip side). I didn't lose any points and continued for the remainder of the semester. At the time, the university printer computer labs did not have a printer quota.
[+] jws|12 years ago|reply
I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.
[+] ohwp|12 years ago|reply
Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine.

Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.

[+] Zikes|12 years ago|reply
I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper.

Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.

[+] WWLink|12 years ago|reply
My canon mx860 can actually do this straight from its menu haha. There's a few options for college ruled, wide ruled, and grid paper. This web app has more choices, but the printer makes some amazing paper as is :D
[+] famousactress|12 years ago|reply
Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.
[+] bigd|12 years ago|reply
I'm assuming OP is the author:

very nice idea, very nice execution. Few things that imho need to be fixed (probably fast fixes): 1) Ensure that the print settings are correct. i.e. the pattern get splitted on two pages, for no reason. 2) resizing the browser window stretches/squeezes the picture. You shoud probably listen to the resize events and re-trigger the generation, change the patterns to some css, or simply set the generated image as cover. 3) translate the code in english. In softwares, having standards is a good thing.

[+] avmich|12 years ago|reply
I'd like to be able to add my own pattern - because few of somewhat useful are missing and for other reasons.
[+] mikhuang|12 years ago|reply
looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid
[+] Intermernet|12 years ago|reply
I agree, the only thing this is missing is actual units (both metric and imperial).
[+] chrissyb|12 years ago|reply
Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.
[+] mjcohen|12 years ago|reply
How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...
[+] dredmorbius|12 years ago|reply
Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.