Printing to height of screen?
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*General info:
- I use a wide screen monitor
- I print using letter size both through printer and cutePDF*
So my question is can you print using the height of your screen rather than the width?
Generally with sketchup it will take the screen you see and then scale according to the page format you selected.
This leads to top and bottom strips of nothing. It would be really nice to make use of the entire printed page rather than waste it with blank top & bottom strips.My thought was is there a way to print using the height of your screen and then have sketchup come out to the sides and get the limits
for printing. (cutting off the sides of the drawings that you can currently see) This would allow full page printing and no have any wasted white space.Another though I had was I could change the monitor resolution when im printing... but I really don't want to have to do that.
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and come up with any solutions.
Additional thoughts
- I have experimented with printing in legal to PDF and it is getting closer to being the right height (drawing runs to the top & bottom of the page)
but it scales back to the same when printing to letter. - AutoCAD uses a "window" feature to allow you to really get the scale you want, am I missing a similar feature with sketchup?
Thanks alot for any insight into this!
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Hey, Thanks alot for the reply.
I just tryed out "un maximizing" the screen and adjusting to approx dim i wanted to print at and it does exactly what I wanted it to do.
Great tip!I will try tinkering around in LayOut & Style builder, I have never really had a need to use those. But improved printing quality would be
great to see aswell. -
I hope what I say is not Mac-only...
First you may wish to read the manual on printing and printing to scale. Secondly. If I want to print a shape that better fits the sheet I change the proportions of my window to the proportions of the page. There's no exact way (I know of) that does this. Thirdly I never print directly from SU anyway. The quality is no good. I export to .png or pdf and adjust the size for the quality I want. At some point I might crop the image again anyway. But now I am beginning to use LayOut a lot for my printing (Pro version only) if I am just outputting a SU picture.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
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