HumbleChief Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I think this used to work differently in the recent past but I'm printing a simple 8.5 x 11 PDF and when I select current view I get nothing even remotely resembling the current view in the print preview window - thought I used to. The problem is it takes many trial and error attempts to get the print size to fit the page properly - a little crazy making. It's not plan specific as near as I can tell but I'll post the plan anyway. Here's a couple of screens shots. Here's the actual 'current view'... and here's what I get from the PDF preview. pdf problem 1.plan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Are you printing from Plan or Layout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Yeah, I think he is printing from plan. Not a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
country Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Much easier doing a screen capture from plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 You can change your drawing sheet size from the File/print/drawing sheet setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Larry, I am not that far away. You know I will come down there with my dogs and leave a present on your lawn if you are printing directly from the plan file.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 It is printing what you have asked it too , your "view" includes the whole window not just the terrain Perimeter. zoom in as tight as possible to what you want to print, obviously it wont be to scale .... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 This works differently in X7 than it did in X6. I print from plan view all the time and save to PDF. It's a really fast way to print a simple plan view of the 'current view'. The 'current view' is exactly that in X6 - the view in your screen. Like below. But in X7 it doesn't print the current view. It's always way too big as if it's ignoring the command - that used to work in X6. Here's the exact same view and the exact same plan but different view sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Of course it's working OK today on a plan that would not cooperate the other day. Here's the 'current screen' And here's what should print - pretty close. Just couldn't get it to happen the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 It is printing what you have asked it too , your "view" includes the whole window not just the terrain Perimeter. zoom in as tight as possible to what you want to print, obviously it wont be to scale .... M. I was asking Chief to print the 'current view', not the whole window, not the whole terrain perimeter but the 'current view' those are two different requests - which it will do - most of the time. Try it and see if the 'current view'; doesn't include only the data in the 'current view'. Looks like it's working today or at least maybe my brain is working today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumbleChief Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Larry, I am not that far away. You know I will come down there with my dogs and leave a present on your lawn if you are printing directly from the plan file.... That's funny Alan. I print directly from the plan file all the time when scale doesn't matter. Fast way to get info to a client, truss company etc. BTW you can come by with your dogs any time - I love puppies! I also was born in Carmel and grew up in Monterey so whenever I see your sig I reminisce a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlackore Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I'm still on X6, but the Current View that prints is always slightly bigger than what I see on screen - otherwise I don't see any issues with printing from plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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