#282750 - 08/06/2006 18:21
Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
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Loc: London, UK
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I'm trying to print out a table plan for the wedding. I've got the plan all put together nicely in a program called PerfectTablePlan. Now, the printshop wants PDF, so I've installed PDFCreator, and I can successfully generate an A1-sized PDF file. What I want to do is print it out across multiple sheets on my laser printer here, and then stick the sheets together, so that I can check that the font sizes, etc., look good in A1 size. Any idea how? Oh, Windows solutions only at this point, please. My printer's not plugged into my Linux box, and I can't be bothered to set that up at the moment.
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#282751 - 08/06/2006 18:29
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Roger]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
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Loc: Seattle, WA
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I remember that being a function built-in to Aldus PageMaker back in the old days. Dunno about these days.
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#282753 - 08/06/2006 18:56
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Roger]
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enthusiast
Registered: 11/06/2003
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When you print just don't select any of the auto-fit to page options and stuff like that. That is, if you're using Acrobat.
What are you using to view & print?
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#282754 - 08/06/2006 18:58
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Mataglap]
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enthusiast
Registered: 11/06/2003
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Ah,
Ctrl-P | Page Scaling | Tile All Pages
at least with acrobat 6
And with FoxIt, Page Scaling | Actual Size
--Nathan
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#282755 - 08/06/2006 19:05
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Mataglap]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31602
Loc: Seattle, WA
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When you print just don't select any of the auto-fit to page options and stuff like that. That is, if you're using Acrobat.
When I use the Adobe PDF viewer, and I tell it to print something that's bigger than the paper size with the options set like you say, it appears that it wants to print only one piece of paper's worth of that document (i.e., only the upper left corner of what I want to print). At least that's the indication it's giving me on the screen and in the print spooler. I haven't actually tried printing it, don't wanna waste the ink on this experment. 
It'd be nice if it automatically tiled, but nothing on the screen is indicating it's gonna do that.
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#282756 - 08/06/2006 19:07
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Mataglap]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31602
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Ctrl-P | Page Scaling | Tile All Pages
Option isn't one of the available options in Adobe Reader 6.0.
I guess you have to buy the full acrobat before that's an option.
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#282757 - 08/06/2006 19:09
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
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Loc: Seattle, WA
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I remember that being a function built-in to Aldus PageMaker back in the old days. Dunno about these days.
Tiled poster printing is also an option in Microsoft Publisher. I'm guessing that's the kind of feature you'll find in just about any desktop publishing program.
Makes me wonder: The chart-making software that you used to make the layout in the first place? Doesn't *THAT* have a tiled printing option? Perhaps you could do your checking at THAT stage of the process instead of checking the PDF file?
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#282758 - 08/06/2006 19:13
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31602
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Makes me wonder: The chart-making software that you used to make the layout in the first place? Doesn't *THAT* have a tiled printing option? Perhaps you could do your checking at THAT stage of the process instead of checking the PDF file?
Never Mind. Doesn't have that option. You're already following their instructions.
Well. Maybe printing just the upper left corner, or the middle, of the floor plan will answer your questions about readability without needing to print the whole thing?
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#282760 - 08/06/2006 19:15
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Mataglap]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31602
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Yeah, looks like his complete soultion there.
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#282761 - 08/06/2006 19:47
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: tfabris]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 06/04/2005
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Loc: Seattle transplant
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Could one not tile manually- zoom in on certain sections and 'print current view'?
Certainly not a fancy way to do it...
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#282762 - 09/06/2006 01:12
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: Roger]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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As in trying to do something like this. It's a setting available in some print drivers.  Sorry snap show showed incorrect setting.
Edited by gbeer (09/06/2006 01:28)
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#282763 - 09/06/2006 04:46
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
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Loc: London, UK
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When I use the Adobe PDF viewer, and I tell it to print something that's bigger than the paper size with the options set like you say, it appears that it wants to print only one piece of paper's worth of that document
Yeah, that's what it does: only print the top-left corner. It's good enough to preview the font sizes, which is cool, but I kinda wanted to see how the whole thing would come out.
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#282764 - 09/06/2006 04:51
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: gbeer]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
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Loc: London, UK
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It's a setting available in some print drivers.
Except that the A1:A4 ratio isn't expressible as "1 in XxX pages" (where X is a whole number), which kinda puts the kibosh on that plan.
A1 is 4 times as tall as A4 is wide, and twice as wide as A4 is tall.
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#282765 - 09/06/2006 05:01
Re: Printing a PDF across multiple sheets?
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
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Loc: London, UK
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The chart-making software that you used to make the layout in the first place? Doesn't *THAT* have a tiled printing option?
No, unfortunately, it doesn't, as you found. I've been talking to the guy who wrote it -- he's been tremendously helpful, and he says he's going to try working on the printing options for the next major release. I don't know whether tiling is on his list, though.
In the end, I previewed the sizes with just the corner, and then exported the plan to SVG and tweaked the sizes, colours etc. in InkScape, which wasn't bad. "Stable version" (on the website) is a bit of a misnomer, though, at least on Windows -- remember to save regularly.
I also remembered that these Dell 2005FPW monitors rotate into portrait mode, which made it much easier to work on the SVG without too much scrolling around.
Hopefully, Jen'll be able to pick up the finished article from the printers today, and we'll see how it all came out.
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