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print area OK on preview, misplaced on printout
Using Autocad I have the opportunity to manually shift the position of the printout on x and y axes, centering it by trial and error, but I don't get this feature in other softwares such as Adobe Acrobat.
Using Acrobat I select an asymmetric print area, the drawing is located in the bottom left corner, out of center position on the monitor and the print preview. But after printing it is more or less in the middle of the paper depending on how precise my guess was to asses the level of misplacement.
I do really hope that there is a way to adjust the preview to the actual print area of the plotter.
I will try to print several pages with different softwares just to check if the misplacement is the same at every case or depends on the software used.
Where and how can I modify the print area displayed in previews to be in accordance with the actual printout parameters?
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Thanks for the tips, but I've tried all the above. Spent loads of papers to experiment with the various setup alternatives, but no success yet. The best "solution" so far is to select an asymmetric print area with the pdf selection tool, hoping that it will match the borders of the printed paper / or to export the picture into another format, and print it using a different software.
Cheers,
masta
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The size of the paper was set to an oversize value, and it was displayed in inches. As I live in Hungary, using mm only, the different paper size was not obvious at all. After playing around with different sizes, under different softwares, I saw, the oversized media is accessed from acrobat reader only, that's why other sw did not produce these symptomes...
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thanks
capt.
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assuming that you print from Acrobat to HP.
The first port of call is the printer preferences in File|Print setup. Select your printr's properties and verify that all media (paper) settings correspond with the actual paper size and tray source used. Also check that there are no "Rotate to fit" or "shrink to size" options ticked.
Then select the Paper source manually corresponding to the tray used.
I suppose this will all be fine as this is were the preview is derived from but it makes sense to check once more.
Then use the Acrobat File|Print dialog and choose you settings from the Paper hndling box. You should have 'None' in the page scaling and untick the Autto rotate & center option.
If your PDF size is bigger than the paper size you can now choose the Use PDF size to define paper source which will be fine on the preview but will not print OK if the media is not at the same size. This may be where your problem lies. If you untick that box does it reflect the output you are getting?
If so you may need to adjust your media settings.
Hope that helps
capt.