topic Re: printing to scale in Documentation

printing to scale

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:30:21 GMT

hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

Re: printing to scale

Andy Thomson — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:31:46 GMT

sounds like a margins issue, adjust your margins of your master layouts until it does not shrink the page, are you close, like 98%?

Re: printing to scale

Djordje — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:00:42 GMT

nextarchitect wrote:
hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

Printing from where?

Which Archicad version?

If 9, is the Master in the PlotMaker set to the particular printer? If 10, is the Master in the Layouts set to the particular printer?

Or are you printing from the model views directly?

Re: printing to scale

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:17:43 GMT

thanks. using ac10. printing from model views. or published dwg's.
ill try setting the master layout.

Re: printing to scale

Djordje — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:55:59 GMT

nextarchitect wrote:
thanks. using ac10. printing from model views. or published dwg's.
ill try setting the master layout.

Do it from the layouts.

Re: printing to scale

Thomas Holm — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:12:50 GMT

nextarchitect wrote:
hello.
brand new user. macbookpro17, epson 1280 printer.
having problem controlling scale on prints. never prints at designated scale always adjusts for page size.
thanks.
ben

In the Print dialog, third click menu from top, you'll find an "Archicad" option when you click on the menu button.

Select the Archicad option. There, you'll find a number of options on how to set your printing to get it to a known scale. This applies to printing both model views and layouts.

Please note that these options only "stick" after a print, and during the Archicad session going on. If you close the application, you will have to check this again next time you open it.

And note that if you print to scale to a PDF, the person that in turn prints out the PDF will have to check "no page scaling" in HIS print dialog (Adobe Reader?) otherwise Reader will adjust for printer margins again, and the scale will be off.

Re: printing to scale

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:58:09 GMT

Hi guys,

I've got a little problem here. I don't have printer at home, so I can't print directly from ArchiCAD as I have to use the library printers (through library's comps) and they don't have ArchiCAD installed...

So my question is: Is there ANY WAY in which I could save the drawings to scale and print them to the same scale from another computer that doesn't have archiCAD installed on it.

I need this ASAP, I'd really appreciate your help!

Re: printing to scale

Djordje — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:08:26 GMT

Future_Architect wrote:
Hi guys,

I've got a little problem here. I don't have printer at home, so I can't print directly from ArchiCAD as I have to use the library printers (through library's comps) and they don't have ArchiCAD installed...

So my question is: Is there ANY WAY in which I could save the drawings to scale and print them to the same scale from another computer that doesn't have archiCAD installed on it.

I need this ASAP, I'd really appreciate your help!

PDF.

Re: printing to scale

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:52:06 GMT

Could you please elaborate on that?

I tried to save it as a PDF file but it's not on the save menu thingy. How do you do it?

I'm really new to this!

Re: printing to scale

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:27:32 GMT

Oh I figured it out!!! but errrrrrrr when I open it as a PDF file it appears to be so small... would it be like this when i print? or would it print to the 1:20 scale that I had set?

Re: printing to scale

__archiben — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:08:16 GMT

Future_Architect wrote:
Oh I figured it out!!! but errrrrrrr when I open it as a PDF file it appears to be so small... would it be like this when i print? or would it print to the 1:20 scale that I had set?

it would help to know what operating system and archicad you are using. PDF print/publish/export is a different kettle of fish for each.

the basics:
if you are using OSX's print to PDF functionality, the PDF will be the same size as the paper in your default printer. if you haven't got one step up, the chances are it will be either A4 or US paper. go into your System Preferences/Print & Fax settings and change the default paper size.

if you're using windows i haven't a clue what defines it.

what you should be doing, however, is publishing your layouts as PDFs using archicad's built-in publisher. this takes the paper size of the layout's 'master' as it's default size and allows you to publish different size pages at the same time.

it sounds like you might need to review the layouting and publishing (master>layout>publish) aspects of the user manual . . .

~/archiben

Re: printing to scale

Thomas Holm — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:32:16 GMT

Future...????? wrote:
Oh I figured it out!!! but errrrrrrr when I open it as a PDF file it appears to be so small... would it be like this when i print? or would it print to the 1:20 scale that I had set?

You've already got the answer... In my post before, (perhaps you should read it again??) I outlined the process on how to print to scale from Archicad, and that applies also to how to print to PDF, which in general terms to how to set Publishing to pdf too. I also told how the receiver should setup his printing of the PDF to make it print to scale :

... the person that in turn prints out the PDF will have to check "no page scaling" in HIS print dialog (Adobe Reader?) otherwise Reader will adjust for printer margins again, and the scale will be off.

Now, I suggest you check out the Help files and do some work by yourself!