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Code-manual de-disagreement.
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Start by possibly changing `mmTileEdge`, which defaults to `152.5`, being 150mm of tile + 2.5mm grout.
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Next, in the PostScript file are two instances of the string “Where on the map”.
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Next, in the PostScript file are two instances of the string “Where on the map?”.
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Go to second instance, which is almost at the end of the file.
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Just before this is are routines `KitchenRoomPath` and `KitchenFurniturePath`, specifying their shape in millimetres.
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Adjust this template to your details.
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But where on the map is your kitchen to be: which part of the tile pattern do you want?
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Change the parameters of the `translate` near “Where on the map”.
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Change the parameters of the `translate` near “Where on the map?”.
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Back to the first instance of the string, at about line 47 of the file.
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This chooses what is to be shown on the page: the `translate` choosing where, and the `scale` filling the page.
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Simplest is to understate the scale (maybe `2`), by trial-and-error set the `translate` approximately correct, then increase the zoom and re-improve the `translate`.
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If the PDF is to be published online, perhaps lessen the file size by shrinking the bounding box controlled by `ToPaint_XMin`, `ToPaint_XMax`, `ToPaint_YMin`, and `ToPaint_YMax`.
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Back to the first instance of the string, at about line 17 of the file.
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The `ToPaint_XMin`, `ToPaint_XMax`, `ToPaint_YMin`, and `ToPaint_YMax`: choose what is to be painted.
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The `/ScaleFactor` should choose widsely given these, but you might want to change.
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Indeed, for those tiling a non-huge space, this PostScript or its SVG equivalents, appropriately amended, might be all that is needed from this repo.

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