• Industries
  • Products
  • Buy
  • Services & Support
  • Communities
    • Discussion Groups

    DWF

    Reply
    Topic Options
    Contributor fortnemj
    Contributor
    Posts: 14
    Registered: ‎11-10-2003

    Print Scaling on 11x17 pages

    Options
    92 Views, 3 Replies
    10-20-2003 03:17 AM
    My mapping group recently moved to ACAD 2002/Map 5 in XP. We chose to wait until this month to upgrade the DWF viewer from good ol' Whip4 to Express Viewer plugged into Internet Explorer (we're using EV ver. 3.1). Due to downstream data constraints, I am required to continue to use the legacy DWFOUT function to generate our DWF files.

    The output DWF files appear to work perfectly in Express Viewer, and print as the did using Whip4 when I test them from my PC. However, they print with 2 to 3 inch margins all around from any PC that has a 17" or smaller monitor (mine's a 20"). I'm using "Current View" and "Fit to Paper Size" settings (I've tried all combinations of settings). If, however, I scale the IE window to the proportions of the map image, the print comes out looking OK, with nominal margins. I'm not kidding.

    The Autodesk helpline and our CAD vendor do not have a clue as to a fix. Has anyone had a similar print scaling problem?

    My main body of users numbers over 1,000, my drawing library consists of +/- 150,000 maps, and our Intranet site gets about 20,000 hits a month to view these DWF files. So I'm starting to take heat for my users and my IT guys. Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Michael
    fortnemj@sce.com
    Report Inappropriate Content
    Message 1 of 4 (92 Views)
    Reply
    0 Kudos
    Please use plain text.
     
    *Cochran, Ben

    Re: Print Scaling on 11x17 pages

    Options
    10-20-2003 05:17 AM in reply to: fortnemj

    Are you
    printing from the AEV menu or the IE menu?



    size=2>     



    size=2>Ben



    style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
    My
    mapping group recently moved to ACAD 2002/Map 5 in XP. We chose to wait until
    this month to upgrade the DWF viewer from good ol' Whip4 to Express Viewer
    plugged into Internet Explorer (we're using EV ver. 3.1). Due to downstream
    data constraints, I am required to continue to use the legacy DWFOUT function
    to generate our DWF files.

    The output DWF files appear to work perfectly in Express Viewer, and print
    as the did using Whip4 when I test them from my PC. However, they print with 2
    to 3 inch margins all around from any PC that has a 17" or smaller monitor
    (mine's a 20"). I'm using "Current View" and "Fit to Paper Size" settings
    (I've tried all combinations of settings). If, however, I scale the IE window
    to the proportions of the map image, the print comes out looking OK, with
    nominal margins. I'm not kidding.

    The Autodesk helpline and our CAD vendor do not have a clue as to a fix.
    Has anyone had a similar print scaling problem?

    My main body of users numbers over 1,000, my drawing library consists of
    +/- 150,000 maps, and our Intranet site gets about 20,000 hits a month to view
    these DWF files. So I'm starting to take heat for my users and my IT guys. Any
    suggestions would be deeply appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Michael
    fortnemj@sce.com

    Report Inappropriate Content
    Message 2 of 4 (92 Views)
    Reply
    0 Kudos
    Please use plain text.
     
    Contributor fortnemj
    Contributor
    Posts: 14
    Registered: ‎11-10-2003

    Re:

    Options
    10-20-2003 06:29 AM in reply to: fortnemj
    We use the AEV menu...IE's print utility doesn't yield adequate or consistent results. When I say the EV menu, I mean the right-click context menu -> Print.
    Report Inappropriate Content
    Message 3 of 4 (92 Views)
    Reply
    0 Kudos
    Please use plain text.
     
    *Peach, Tony

    Re:

    Options
    10-22-2003 08:58 AM in reply to: fortnemj
    Michael,

     

    Is your site external, if so can you give me an
    address so that I can take a look at the site and DWF files.  This sounds
    like a very weird issue that I would like to see if I can duplicate from my
    machine.

     

    Thanks,

    Tony


     

    =================


    style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


    Are you
    printing from the AEV menu or the IE menu?



    size=2>     



    size=2>Ben



    style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
    My
    mapping group recently moved to ACAD 2002/Map 5 in XP. We chose to wait
    until this month to upgrade the DWF viewer from good ol' Whip4 to Express
    Viewer plugged into Internet Explorer (we're using EV ver. 3.1). Due to
    downstream data constraints, I am required to continue to use the legacy
    DWFOUT function to generate our DWF files.

    The output DWF files appear to work perfectly in Express Viewer, and
    print as the did using Whip4 when I test them from my PC. However, they
    print with 2 to 3 inch margins all around from any PC that has a 17" or
    smaller monitor (mine's a 20"). I'm using "Current View" and "Fit to Paper
    Size" settings (I've tried all combinations of settings). If, however, I
    scale the IE window to the proportions of the map image, the print comes out
    looking OK, with nominal margins. I'm not kidding.

    The Autodesk helpline and our CAD vendor do not have a clue as to a fix.
    Has anyone had a similar print scaling problem?

    My main body of users numbers over 1,000, my drawing library consists of
    +/- 150,000 maps, and our Intranet site gets about 20,000 hits a month to
    view these DWF files. So I'm starting to take heat for my users and my IT
    guys. Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Michael

    fortnemj@sce.com

    Report Inappropriate Content
    Message 4 of 4 (92 Views)
    Reply
    0 Kudos
    Please use plain text.