Homebrew PCBs

For combining the views onto one sheet i use paint shop pro.
The old versions (around 6) are quite cheap on ebay and much better than  
the new versions.

You need to find a way to print to scale, which can be tricky. I use tiff  
export instead of printing to pdf.

ST


On Tue, 02 May 2006 11:01:06 +0200, Mark Mickelsen  
<mark.mickelsen@...> wrote:

> I'm new at this and I may be doing it all wrong.  I have my PCB software
>
> generate the layout as a PDF file so I can print it out on my laser  
> printer.
>
> Is there a better format that I should be using for the printout?  Also,  
> the
>
> top layer, bottom layer, silkscreen, and other things all come out as
>
> separate files.  I would like to be able to combine them all on a single
>
> sheet of photo paper for printout.  Does anyone know of a piece of  
> software
>
> that will let me combine the files together into a single file for  
> printout?
>
> My boards are small enough that all these different things will fit on a
>
> single 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of photo paper and it would be nice to not  
> have to
>
> print out several sheets for just one small board.  Or am I just going  
> about
>
> this the wrong way in the first place?
>
> Some help from the more experienced players would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Mark