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Re: [Digital BW] software tool for measuring matts

2010-01-18 by Mark Savoia

I see. Will it run an a Mac?

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Jan 17, 2010, at 6:54 PM, David Kachel wrote:

>
> On Jan 17, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Mark Savoia wrote:
>
>> I don't get it. It gives you what, the size of the matte board?
>
> 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.
>
> David Kachel
>

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