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Re: [Digital BW] software tool for measuring matts

2010-01-18 by David Kachel

> No, the size of the window to cut and at what distance from each edge of the board to make your cuts.
> 
> For example; you bought a bunch of 16x20 museum board, but it is really 15-7/8 by 20-3/16.
> The image area of your photograph is 9 x 13-3/8.
> 
> You want the matt to be 3/8 outside the image edge of your print, except for the bottom where you want a larger space of 1/2 inch. And, you want a wider border at the bottom than the top by one inch total.
> 
> Now do the math manually.


The correct answer BTW, as determined by the aforementioned software is to cut 3-1/32 on the left and right, 2-1/2 on the top and 3-1/2 on the bottom.
> 

David Kachel



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