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Late to the party ! QCad is a Cad package that will import images and Gimp is an open source graphics package runs on most operating systems. Both are free, although Qcad can be purchased for useful addons. The Qcad try before buy is versatile enough to deal with a lot of bits and pieces. Gimp’s Printing is poor, the work around is to export image as a pdf and print the pdf to scale on your printer settings. rgds

Thanks for your replies. rgds

A passing thought ! I don’t know if the following is true but, if my scalescenes pdf is say 95 percent and a have to enlarge it to 110 percent, do I get a dilution of 15 percent on colour shading ? Or does a pdf not work that way ? rgds

Thanks for the link, I have used it before and it is a good indicator of the brick styles, although the sample sizes are a bit small, May be a two page pdf would be useful with slightly larger samples. An additional piece of advice to those that may be having a problem. I have a Brother inkjet printer which you can set a range of prints ie Fast, normal, Fine, best which all give different finishes. I have found that the printer also has paper settings for different photo and plain paper. In my case five types, in each case these seem to give different tones with the print settings. So I seem to have 4 ranges, 5 papers giving a choice of 20 prints. Admittedly some prints are similar but not the same setting. The next batch of printing will be sprayed with a fixer to see if the colour holds, The layout is in the attic, not too much light, but hot in the summer. Rgds

I have recently left the Windows world and now Mac based. Using the same printer it seems that the Windows PDF needs to be set to 100% but the Mac using the same PDF print needs to be set at 110% to maintainer same size. Unfortunately using cheap colour cartridges now produce a range of problems as the colour balance is different, thePrint from the Mac printing Ashlar is quite pink. rgds