kippax Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I am currently creating a drawing template with paper space layouts for all the standard paper sizes. All seems fine, however, there is a dotted border on all the pages in addition to my created drawing border and title block. What is this ?... is it the printable area ? Its no problem on all but the A2 layout where it is inside my border. Tried editing various settings on the Page Set-up Manager to no apparent effect. Any help please.... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullseye74 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Correct this is your printable area - I would say your A2 border is to big. Make sure your paper size is set to A2 and you have plot area set to Layout, I always tick the centre plot as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippax Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 I've gone to the properties section of the dwg to pdf (this is what we use as we currently have no plotter of our own) and modified the printable area. The A2 printable area seemed considerably more reduced than the other paper sizes. Changing this seems to have sorted the problem, but is this a wise thing to do/best solution ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBullseye74 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Not quite sure what you mean - if you have changed the properties so its not page set up to layout OR scale 1:1 your drawings will not scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippax Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 Well the only place I can find to alter the size of the printable area is within the properties dialogue for a particular printer/plotter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secretagdan Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I had this problem when I was setting up the printer here. Our IT guys set up a HP driver for this, that seemed to solve the problem, with the printable area. Unfortunatly, because the IT guys fixed it, I am not sure how to solve it. You may look up other posts on the HP drivers though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-GB Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Kippax, this may help, it did help me with an A3 print problem on an HP printer. The dotted lines are the print area allowed by ACAD but they are alterable. http://www.cadtutor.net/tutorials/autocad/iso-paper-sizes.php Hope this helps. Rob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippax Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 Cheers for the advice, but it seems that the printable area is plotter specific and altering the properties within the dwg>pdf plotter is the most convenient way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 If the current page setup is set to print to layout then you will need to change the size of the title block. If you change the page setup temporarily to plot to extents does the dotted border you are seeing move to where you expect it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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