is there a way to export the .svg so i can load them into a plotter to make the graph paper? Since you've expended all the effort to ensure proper sizing and whatnot. It even looks like it has the same margins as my plotter!
one can load the pdf into inkscape and presumably get an .svg out that will load into cricut's nonsense. however it scales the svg, so i don't get the accuracy. i am 95% sure this is on the cricut "slicer" and not inkscape or the OP. Anyhow, it works well enough. i'm plotting a hex sheet right now.
Solves a lot of issues with the other sites. Though I haven't used it much or need it, it could be useful to students who need it and one PDF of it solves the issue.
Just keep it running. Have you considered open sourcing it at some point?
DRY applies, even in SVG. Draw one horizontal line and then reuse it for the other horizontal lines. Same for the vertical lines. The advantage of this technique is that you can clone the master lines without having to repeat yourself with the stroke-width and other attributes. You can also specify just the x or just the y of the cloned line, thereby needing to specify x1, x2, y1 and y2 just once per master line, with x (or y) in the use elements being just the offset.
Why bother? DRY. That is it.
If you put the master lines in a 'defs' as symbols, then they can inherit some attributes from a 'g' (group), therefore enabling you to specify stroke-width just once. Non-scaling stroke widths can also be specified, meaning that you can scale up an A4 to an A0 without having fat lines.
Since you want to make graph paper accessible to all, you can put a few words together in the 'desc' for that, and give the paper a 'title' specifying what it is, e.g. A4, 5mm spacing, with your URL.
Nobody will ever care for these small changes, however, if you branch out into making paper for composers or other specialist use cases, these techniques might come in hand.
Bug in the "Draw on Graph Paper"/virtual graph paper? Change the grid to hexagon and make sure "snap to grid" is checked. Still snaps to the original square grid.
I have checked your app. The idea is great, but I feel the log-log plots and some scientific and engineering sheets will be helpful. By the way great work.
Although I don't personally use graph paper much, this project looks great. I find many of the example pattern previews very hard to see, though. I'd darken and/or thicken the lines. The descriptions underneath are good, but there are a lot of patterns that are unfamiliar to me that I'd like to be able to preview better, like Cross Stitch and Knitting.
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Solves a lot of issues with the other sites. Though I haven't used it much or need it, it could be useful to students who need it and one PDF of it solves the issue.
Just keep it running. Have you considered open sourcing it at some point?
Why bother? DRY. That is it.
If you put the master lines in a 'defs' as symbols, then they can inherit some attributes from a 'g' (group), therefore enabling you to specify stroke-width just once. Non-scaling stroke widths can also be specified, meaning that you can scale up an A4 to an A0 without having fat lines.
Since you want to make graph paper accessible to all, you can put a few words together in the 'desc' for that, and give the paper a 'title' specifying what it is, e.g. A4, 5mm spacing, with your URL.
Nobody will ever care for these small changes, however, if you branch out into making paper for composers or other specialist use cases, these techniques might come in hand.
However, on Safari, in the Mac, I don't see any graph on the first two (standard North-South/East-West graph).
I do see the isometric and hexagonal ones, though. Maybe the lines are too thin/light.
It's a really nicely-done utility.
Thanks!
There's other pentagon tiling though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling