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Dotamatic
Monday, Nov. 15 2004 | Author: NicoleNot long ago, DarkBlue told us about The Rasterbator, a web service for creating rasterized images from any picture.
Well, it seems that the Rasterbator inspired the SourceForge project listing dotamatic.
dotamatic is written in the “it” language Python and also uses the wxPython library for the user interface and printing capabilities.
I haven’t actually tried the program, so I can’t tell you how well it works. However, if someone does try it, report back and let us know.
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3 Responses for "Dotamatic"
November 15th, 2004 at 4:55 am
1I checked it out and overall quick nice. I made one, see it here
November 15th, 2004 at 4:55 pm
2I rather liked the PDF output from the rasterbator ,can’t wait till this does that too.
December 31st, 2006 at 4:20 am
3I’m the author of Dotamatic. It will never have PDF output since you can use Rasterbator for that. The reason is that you don’t have control of the printing area with PDF.
Dotamatic asks the driver what the margins are which are specific to the printer model. For example some can print very close to the edges of the paper, but not the top or bottom. With PDF you just have to take a guess and can have cropping by the driver, distortion in order to scale it, or wasted space.
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