Publishing to Letter size.

My layout tabs are set to 11x17 paper with viewports set to their scales as needed. I have tried to make a Page Setup for letter size and publishing my tabs and no luck. I can plot a single tab to letter without any problem.

Is there any other way to publish multible tabs in a "batch" to letter size if my tabs are set to 11x17 paper with out changing each tab to letter? Or printing each tab by its self.

I do realize that printing a tab that is set up for 11x17 to letter the drawings will not be to scale.

Thanks

Matt

Right click one of your tabs, click on Page Setup Manager, create a new page setup with the printer, paper size and pen settings you want. SAVE. Select the first paper space tab SHIFT+Left click the far right then RIGHT Click the selected tabs and click PUBLISH. Select the page setup for all of the layouts you want to print and they should all go and come out on the same paper. Sorry would have included pictures but lunch is almost over!

Glen1980..

I have tried that and it don't work as I said in my post. When I do it that way I get an error and nothing prints

Is there any other way than that??

what is the error message?

Sorry Honda Matt, just re-read your original post, I have no idea how I missed you saying it was publish that wasn't working, I must have had a worse morning than I thought

As JPlanera asks what is the error message? In the mean time if you have lots of tabs that you need re-sizing could you print it as a multipage DWF or PDF at 11x17 then print it at Letter size from a pdf reader or dwg viewer to save some time/boring printing routines.

PCL XL error

Error: IllegalOperatorSequence

Operator: 0xd3

Position: 1233

Thats what come out of the printer...

As for print to pdf than print to letter thats what I do. I was "sh**ing in one hand and wishing in the other" to hopfully skip that step and print directly to letter. I dont alway need to make a pdf of that drawing.

Seems that I might need to wash my hands more......

Matt

Well the only way i can think to accomplish this is to use the import option in the publish dialog box. Once the publish window is open, under the page setup drop down list, select import... The file that you are importing is going to have to have a custom page setup that you create in order to correctly display your 11x17 work on an 8.5x11 sheet. see if this will work, if its too confusing i will try to elaborate more...

I Have tried that JPlanera. I have made a new page setup in that file to print to 8 1/2 x 11 with scale to fit and imported one from another file.

Do I need to have file with tabs that are set up for 8 1/2 x 11 and import that page set up? Will That even work??

MAtt

Well importing a page setup from a file with tabs set up for 8 1/2 x 11 scaled to fit does not work.

Matt

You wont be able to use "scale to fit". You would have to manipulate the scale "factor" in order to display it. Otherwise, your plot will not show the whole area.

Does this have to be done in PS? The problem i see here is that your Layout tabs have preset Paper size. It is not the intention of paper space to publish to paper size not specified in the page setup... If this can be done in model space, you can achieve your goal. I just so happened to have done this recently with a LISP/script combination

How many dwgs are you needing to publish?

The only time we need to print into letter size is if we want to have a hard copy for referance in the file (stanard 3 ring binder).

Is there a way to set up Layout tabs that don't have a preset paper size?

Our boarder is in the layout and our viewports are inside the boarder, if that matters.

I might have to just print to pdf, then print to letter.

Matt

Is there a way to set up layout tab without a preset paper size?

Our boarder is on the layout with the view ports inside the boarder as needed.

The only time we need to print to letter is to have a hard copy in the file (3 ring binder). Other than that we dont print to letter.

I think for ease and my sanity I'll just print to pdf then print to letter if needed.

Thanks

Matt

Ok lets try this... I have successfully printed an 11x17 layout onto a 8.5x11 sheet... Here is what I did:

1) Create a new drawing called B_to_A_layout or something of the sort..

2) Create a new page setup of the same name.

3) Set your plot style, printer/plotter to your normal setting.

4) Set paper size to 8.5x11

5) Set Plot Area to Layout and Plot scale to 1:1.58

6) OK to save changes.

Now enter the publish window

Add all the Layouts that you want to print using the add sheets button.

Under page setup, choose import and find the "B_to_A_layout" drawing.

Set all the layouts to be printed to this setup and click publish...

WHat happens?

I give up...

If I need to publish 11x17 to letter I am going to print to pdf then print to letter

Thanks for your help

Matt

Did you at least try it?

As JPlanera's indicated a normal page setup won't allow you to use scale-to-fit. The only scale to fit types would be if the setup uses Extents / Window - neither of which is really advised on layout tabs. But even using the Layout selection on the Page Setup dialog, you can adjust to a custom scaling as JPlanera's indicated. If you want to fine-tune the custom scale factor do the following to get hold of the number (note this factor may differ between printers as each printer uses different margins for the same page size):

Start the plot command, select the page size, select Window in the "What to plot" dropdown. Click the "Window

I generally don't use the ANSI size paper, but it works much the same on the ISO page sizes. E.g I've got a layout drawn for an A0 size page, then I can scale it to 1:2 and print on an A2, or scale at 1:2.87 and print on an A3. It works quite well for me - I'm constantly printing numerous drawings this way through publish.

That error code sounds like something wrong with the driver though. But if the page setup doesn't work, but a normal plot does - there must be some difference between the 2's settings. Try this:

Do a normal plot, if it works - again open the plot dialog. In the Page setup box at the top-left, click the "Name" drop-down, select . Click the Add button and give the new setup a name. This should mak the setup exactly as per your plot's settings.