Jim, thank you for responding. I've only got a few hairs left on my head and I'm t h i s far from running out and buying my first pack of cigarettes in three years. After a dozen tutorials on printing to scale you are the first to direct my attention to the "in the printout" and "in sketchup" windows in the print dialogue. Why isn't that in the "official" sketchup tutorial? I filled the boxes as shown. Still no help. I don't know how the heck you were able to accomplsh the attachment you posted above. Are you using pro version? Why is it converted to PDF? Is that part of my problem? My laptop screen resolution is 1680 x 1050.
Is there a way to set the borders of the screen space you are working within to correspond to an 8.5 X 11 sheet of paper? Not even necessarily to scale at that point. It could be the size of a postage stamp. I only mean that if I could work in that space from the very beginning I would not run into so many scaling problems.
What I'm trying to do is get those images to scale on a sheet and write text around them so that I can fit it all on one page. I attached the original file.
I'd like to put the images on the page far right and reduce the block of text in order to fit to the left. Nothing seems intuitive. I finally downloaded the trial version of pro and was able to eventually get my file to print in scale by opening it in Layout 2 and selecting 1:1 in the right menu on that screen. Simple. Why is it such a nightmare for me in basic edition (and others evidently as shown by the quote I posted above and dozens of others online)?
Please, please, walk me through the steps you took to turn the file I attached into the file you corrected and attached. And again, must it be converted to PDF? I'd prefer to send it to others in an skp format so that they can make changes as needed.
Id like also to reduce that text to fit on the same page, but if that's a whole 'nother tutorial, I'll wait on that part.
Thanks again so much... and for suffering my hystrionics.
last iteration.skp