Shoutout to the junior PM who pointed out my blueprint scaling error

I had been laying out foundation footings wrong for 6 months because I was reading the scale wrong on every PDF. She showed me how the 'fit to page' setting was shrinking everything by 3% and now I actually check before I pour.

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faith_thomas8d ago

Honestly, that 3% shrink is actually common, not just a 'fit to page' glitch.

carter.casey8d ago

Wait, that's not really accurate though. The 3% shrink is actually a known issue with certain printer drivers and application defaults, not just a glitch you can fix by clicking "fit to page." Most common document scaling problems come from margins being set differently between programs or embedded fonts causing rasterization errors. If you test it across a few different file types you'll notice the 3% offset shows up no matter what scaling option you pick. It's more of a rounding issue with how the software interprets page dimensions.