clyne

SUCCESS!! With the image up I go to image > canvas size then reduce the canvas to 96% (save as required) go to print, make sure all the settings are on A3, un-tick the 'fit to frame' and it prints perfectly! Simple but effective. Hope this is of benefit to others.

The A3 scanner seems to scan it at the right size. When I scan it into my pc then out again it is exactly right. When I try to use gimp, it will only print to A4. When I use paint.net it prints to A3 but about 5% too small. Setting the margins to zero helps a little bit but still not to scale and it takes about 5 mins to print out because it will only print on 'fine' setting. I'll try to look at the DPI but it's a scanner / copier (same machine) and, as I said, works OK without going through a programme. I'm amazed this hasn't come up before and a fix been found. Thanks for your time and help. Any more ideas would be welcome. I wonder if Simon Brown's plug in could be modified to allow scaling adjustments............

I managed (after a computer chap cleaned up the mess I'd made) to install the plug in. So I now have the tools > print+ add on. Trouble is it still doesn't print back out to scale. I can't see anything that might help except margins. Am I missing something?

Spent hours trying to do that - It's all greek to me. I give up. Thanks for trying

Thanks for your attempts to help but my paint.net main page looks exactly the same. What should be different? I've even tried emailing simon brown but his email address and web site don't work. I've followed instructions to install the plug in several times.

That's what I followed already but I'll try again, thanks

No - there is no 'tools' in the 'effects' drop down menu

I really don't know. I followed various instructions but the printing looks the same as before.

sorry - I do architecture, not computers........I've tried really hard but don't know what I'm doing re the plug in. I need all this to earn a living! so - in layman's terms please.........

PLEASE HELP! - I am trying to use paint.net to scan in A3 architectural plans, add text and colour, then print back out in A3. It performs all the functions but the print out is smaller than the original which is useless to me. Can someone please help? Thanks