"Is this a CutePDF issue or do all PDF writers working within Revit behave
this way?"
i believe it is a revit issue (printing a little more than the visible
portion) - as it consistently has and continues to occur printing to any
windows printer from revit. CutePDF does not crop for margins.
however i love this about revit - it is Always VERY consistent in its
behavior on a stable machine and therefore predictable. I can't say the
same for the - rhymes with ADpee - product. sorry Autodesk - i think you've
lost sight of the basic foundation of a great solution with the dwg based
products. clean, simple, stable, secure... revit - please don't jack it up.
easy for me to say as a long time user;)
just a little venting - I feel better now.
thanks.
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Brian Earsley
www.arete3.com
18645 South West Creek Drive
Tinley Park, Illinois 60477
708.342.1250 x.225
New to DWF? Check it out!
http://www.arete3.com/services/communication.html
select "ARCHITECTURE" - "File Formats"
"david" wrote in message
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Brian, Leonid,
Thanks for the input. I've been doing basically what both of you recommend
within the print settings...I was just hoping for a, yes, ACAD-like "window"
command. I was never an ACAD user, but in importing/exporting to DWG I found
the command and find it useful when printing a portion of the sheet. The
scroll...align...zoom method seems a bit crude in comparison, but Brian's
suggestion about a creating a "call out" or the like may help. Is this a
CutePDF issue or do all PDF writers working within Revit behave this way?
Cheers,
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David Ford
Eric Barker Architect, Inc.
881-3016 cell
"Leonid Raiz" wrote in message
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If your sheet is 24x36 but you zoom in the area of interest and print
visible portion to paper size 8.5x11 with 100% zoom then Revit will take
your zoomed-in portion and print as much of the overall sheet as fits onto
selected paper size. Thus you will get things printed without scale
distortion which I assume is what user wants. As a matter of fact despite
naming of this option Revit will cut of printed graphics a the end of paper
as opposed to the sides of visible portion of the windows. However, to get
the most useful results make sure to select Center for paper placement in
Print Settings dialog. When Print Settings dialog specifies the combination
of Paper Setting = Center and Zoom = 100% then printing visible portion of
window will place center of visible portion in the center of paper and print
as much as can fit on the page without any scale distortion. I just checked
and confirmed that this is the way things work in 9.0. There is no need to
waste paper trying to figure out how to compensate; you may just as well
print precisely to scale.
HTH
"Brian" wrote in message
news:5468890@discussion.autodesk.com...
usually when a user is printing by 'window' its to a specific sheet size,
lets say A (8.5x11), and lets say they are in a sheet (24x36), if the window
area is larger than the printable area of an A size sheet the 100% option
sends the geometry off the print. zooming to the view desired and using the
'fit to page' with the 'center' options is close but it still adds a little
more geometry (off screen) to the printed output. after a few prints one
gets used to this behavior and can compensate.
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Brian Earsley
www.arete3.com
18645 South West Creek Drive
Tinley Park, Illinois 60477
708.342.1250 x.225
New to DWF? Check it out!
http://www.arete3.com/services/communication.html
select "ARCHITECTURE" - "File Formats"
"Leonid Raiz" wrote in message
news:5468849@discussion.autodesk.com...
Doesn't the radio button for printing visible portion of the current window
in combination with 100% zoom in print settings do what you asking for? Just
do zoom-in region and then invoke print command.
"david" wrote in message
news:5468637@discussion.autodesk.com...
...is there a way to "window" an area of a sheet for printing?
I've been defaulting to the zoom and position method which is inaccurate and
tedious.
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