Rotated Images Don't Print !

[Dennis Lee]

Is this a bug or a long time limitation of the program?
Can't imagine why it won't print. I thought we are way past WYSIWYG stages of software development...

[Anonymous]

There is a problem where a PDF that has been saved in landscape, then brought into AC will display ok, but not print properly. This drives me insane on a daily basis. Not sure if it's related...

How are you bringing in the image? what sort of file is the image?

[Dennis Lee]

I originally brought in TIF files, and overlay a 50% fill over them to tone them down. The TIF images won't print at all, no matter what. I even made them 0 degree rotated.

I found a WIKI article that says ArchiCAD doesn't like images over 1 MB (In this day and age!) in size. I couldn't get the image down below 1 MB, until I tried the PDF format - which did make it down to 500 KB.

Now, I brought in a PDF file, and everything looks fine on screen, but when I print, the PDF image print upside down.

I am losing confidence in AC. I am really disappointed. Come on! this is basic stuff. If I cannot print what I see on screen - how do I have the confidence to continue working on this kind of software???

[Dennis Lee]

Tom, I changed the PDf to Portrait (even though the image is a landscape orientation of course) and reimported the file. I rotated the PDF in AC, and now it prints fine.

This is really insane. AC doesn't like rotated TIF's, images over 1MB, and PDF files saved in landscape orientation,....what else?

[Anonymous]

yip, it's very annoying. have you tried saving the tif as a bmp or png. it seems to like them better.