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Make Your Own Grid Paper

famousactress 12y ago
Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.
- vobios 12y ago
  This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
  - twic 12y ago
    Gridzzly (and why is this not gridzz.ly?) is nice and all, but the Incompetech generator is in fact much better. Still, we're startup fanboys, we're not that bothered about substance if there's some nice style on offer.
  - kaitai 12y ago
    The Incompetech has some useful ones like polar and triangular, too.
- tpsc 12y ago
  Another option: http://paperkit.net/ http://paperkit.net/
avmich 12y ago
I'd like to be able to add my own pattern - because few of somewhat useful are missing and for other reasons.
x43b 12y ago
This is a fun website. I made my own grid paper in undergrad. It started late one night after all the bookstores were closed and I ran out mid-problem in dynamics class. The Professor took off points for not using grid paper so I made my own out of Excel grids(I wrote on the flip side). I didn't lose any points and continued for the remainder of the semester. At the time, the university printer computer labs did not have a printer quota.
Zikes 12y ago
I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper. Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.
- dredmorbius 12y ago
  Or greenbar.
mayoff 12y ago
My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/ http://whitelines.se/function/
- nacs 12y ago
  They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.
  - mongol 12y ago
    Maybe not the idea itself but a method to print it?
    - jws 12y ago
      Nope. Claim 1: white-ish lines on light grey paper. Claim 2: As above, but more closely matching white and grey. Claim 3: Either of the above but with a slightly colored paper instead of gray.
  - jsherer 12y ago
    Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en
  - Kliment 12y ago
    Make sure to give those immoral fucks not the slightest bit of income.
- psychometry 12y ago
  Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad/dp/9186177095 http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...
  - aye 12y ago
    Not to mention the fact that they do a terrible idea conveying what they're actually selling -- there's nothing that says simply "it's grey paper with white lines." "On Whitelines there is no visual interference between the lines and the pen colour." So, the lines on the paper are different depending on the color of the ink I'm writing with?
nthitz 12y ago
http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=100000&height=100000 http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.
bigd 12y ago
I'm assuming OP is the author: very nice idea, very nice execution. Few things that imho need to be fixed (probably fast fixes): 1) Ensure that the print settings are correct. i.e. the pattern get splitted on two pages, for no reason. 2) resizing the browser window stretches/squeezes the picture. You shoud probably listen to the resize events and re-trigger the generation, change the patterns to some css, or simply set the generated image as cover. 3) translate the code in english. In softwares, having standards is a good thing.
mikhuang 12y ago
looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid
- Intermernet 12y ago
  I agree, the only thing this is missing is actual units (both metric and imperial).
- chrissyb 12y ago
  Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.
jws 12y ago
I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.
- ohwp 12y ago
  Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine. Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.
  - jws 12y ago
    The problem comes in the thin lines. If they don't fall exactly on the hardware pixel boundaries they will vary in weight. If you can get the printer to think in monochrome instead of some larger dithering cell you have a chance.
    - qwerty_asdf 12y ago
      There's also that pesky bugaboo about being permitted to own a genuinely accurate printer, and whether or not you'd use it to counterfeit money.
xrt 12y ago
This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/ http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/
easyfree37 12y ago
Thank you.
WWLink 12y ago
My canon mx860 can actually do this straight from its menu haha. There's a few options for college ruled, wide ruled, and grid paper. This web app has more choices, but the printer makes some amazing paper as is :D
imron 12y ago
On a related note, for grid paper for practising Chinese (or Japanese) characters, check out my site: http://www.hanzigrids.com/ http://www.hanzigrids.com/
interfacesketch 12y ago
[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site. http://www.interfacesketch.com http://www.interfacesketch.com
dredmorbius 12y ago
Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.
mjcohen 12y ago
How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...

Oh wow. I love this idea (edit: AND execution!).. I guess it's a minor bummer that I assume my printer won't print full-bleed but still... Things I'd love even more: Indications of exact sizing and the ability to choose what shade of gray/black to be printed.

vobios 12y ago
This one has some of the options your are looking for such as spacing, color, and page border: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
- twic 12y ago
  Gridzzly (and why is this not gridzz.ly?) is nice and all, but the Incompetech generator is in fact much better. Still, we're startup fanboys, we're not that bothered about substance if there's some nice style on offer.
- kaitai 12y ago
  The Incompetech has some useful ones like polar and triangular, too.
tpsc 12y ago
Another option: http://paperkit.net/ http://paperkit.net/

avmich 12y ago

I'd like to be able to add my own pattern - because few of somewhat useful are missing and for other reasons.

x43b 12y ago

This is a fun website. I made my own grid paper in undergrad. It started late one night after all the bookstores were closed and I ran out mid-problem in dynamics class. The Professor took off points for not using grid paper so I made my own out of Excel grids(I wrote on the flip side). I didn't lose any points and continued for the remainder of the semester. At the time, the university printer computer labs did not have a printer quota.

Zikes 12y ago

I'm surprised it doesn't have a feature for intermittent breakpoints, like every 5th or 10th interval. I find that very useful for small size grid-lined paper. Still, this is very nice, it's easy to see the potential for other features.

dredmorbius 12y ago
Or greenbar.

mayoff 12y ago

My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/ http://whitelines.se/function/

nacs 12y ago
They have a patent on white lines on slightly greyed paper? Amazing.
- mongol 12y ago
  Maybe not the idea itself but a method to print it?
  - jws 12y ago
    Nope. Claim 1: white-ish lines on light grey paper. Claim 2: As above, but more closely matching white and grey. Claim 3: Either of the above but with a slightly colored paper instead of gray.
- jsherer 12y ago
  Here's the patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en http://www.google.com/patents/EP1868820B1?cl=en
- Kliment 12y ago
  Make sure to give those immoral fucks not the slightest bit of income.
psychometry 12y ago
Great idea, but a buggy website and their Amazon store is displaying ridiculous prices for some items: http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad/dp/9186177095 http://www.amazon.com/Whitelines-Orange-Glue-Squared-Notepad...
- aye 12y ago
  Not to mention the fact that they do a terrible idea conveying what they're actually selling -- there's nothing that says simply "it's grey paper with white lines." "On Whitelines there is no visual interference between the lines and the pen colour." So, the lines on the paper are different depending on the color of the ink I'm writing with?

nthitz 12y ago

http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=100000&height=100000 http://gridzzly.com/getGrid.php?bunka=sit1&rozestup=3&width=... seems to crash any browser I throw at it. Granted you are trying to load a very large image, but still was surprised. It may 500 Internal Server Error I'm guessing if server runs out of memory while trying to make these large images.

bigd 12y ago

I'm assuming OP is the author: very nice idea, very nice execution. Few things that imho need to be fixed (probably fast fixes): 1) Ensure that the print settings are correct. i.e. the pattern get splitted on two pages, for no reason. 2) resizing the browser window stretches/squeezes the picture. You shoud probably listen to the resize events and re-trigger the generation, change the patterns to some css, or simply set the generated image as cover. 3) translate the code in english. In softwares, having standards is a good thing.

mikhuang 12y ago

looks fun! being able to input specific dimensions would be nice, e.g. 5mm or .25" grid

Intermernet 12y ago
I agree, the only thing this is missing is actual units (both metric and imperial).
chrissyb 12y ago
Additionally being able to add a scale bar would be a tidy feature.

jws 12y ago

I still buy preprinted grid paper and staff paper. It is extraordinarily difficult to force a printer to use the exact same width on each line. There are just too many layers of abstraction between the browser/document and the hardware.

ohwp 12y ago
Most of the time the 'smart' printer software is to blame. But I think if you stick to world units and print at 100% you will be fine. Remember that dpi only controls print quality not print measurements. One cm printed at 300dpi will have the same length as one cm at 72dpi.
- jws 12y ago
  The problem comes in the thin lines. If they don't fall exactly on the hardware pixel boundaries they will vary in weight. If you can get the printer to think in monochrome instead of some larger dithering cell you have a chance.
  - qwerty_asdf 12y ago
    There's also that pesky bugaboo about being permitted to own a genuinely accurate printer, and whether or not you'd use it to counterfeit money.

xrt 12y ago

This is a doddle in PostScript. http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/ http://www.jasonpratt.org/software/graphpaper/

easyfree37 12y ago

Thank you.

WWLink 12y ago

My canon mx860 can actually do this straight from its menu haha. There's a few options for college ruled, wide ruled, and grid paper. This web app has more choices, but the printer makes some amazing paper as is :D

imron 12y ago

On a related note, for grid paper for practising Chinese (or Japanese) characters, check out my site: http://www.hanzigrids.com/ http://www.hanzigrids.com/

interfacesketch 12y ago

[Shameless plug] If you want A4 or US letter gridded paper for sketching a mobile, web or tablet UI, I have a bunch of free ones on my site. http://www.interfacesketch.com http://www.interfacesketch.com

dredmorbius 12y ago

Seems like something TeX or LaTeX could do.

mjcohen 12y ago

How about fancier graphing paper: Gaussian, log-normal with specified parameters, ...