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Anchor text: Given that it is problematic and wasteful, but not impossible, to cut the boards into smaller size before the lithographic and wet chemical processing, and given that the size of the typical circuits that I have been producing are very small (many less than 2in^2), and given that (manual step and repeat) the process of printing many copies and manually and carefully taping the tiny pieces of fairly expensive vellum or onion skin paper while maintaining cleanliness and good UV transparency for the lithographic exposure is a pain and wastes a lot of paper, So now the question... Is there any FREE way to step and repeat the postscript file, the HPGL file, or the gerber file, which are the convenient output for me to generate, so that I can expose the whole board from one master and reduce the wasted time, effort and materials that I have had to expend to accomplish the seemingly simple task of making many copies of a circuit on one PCB. Additionally, in the past (and without some resolution here, perhaps in the future) I have offset the design from center, in each of the 4 quadrants, and passed the same sheet through the printer 4 times, and found this does work; however, it is a lot of work, error prone, time consuming, and limited to 4 repeats. One more thing, I have already looked at a shareware named ABviewer, but it showed a black page when I opened the HPGL output intended for my HPLJ5MP printer (generated via print to file). Thanks in advance. [[User:U.S.Citizen|U.S.Citizen

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