So it turns out that the problem is my operating system- guess I have to upgrade before the new Sketchup will work. Hope this old machine will take one more upgrade. But thanks for your help on this.

If I may, there is a new question. I've installed the Bezier Spline plug in, because in my woodworking I use a lot of curves. But now I'm like the cat that's caught its first bird- I've got no idea what to do with it. Are you aware of any places/sites that talk about which spline choices are best for which tasks, and actually how to use these things?

I did push the red button to download Sketchup 2013, and did everything else it asked me to do to install. I saved the emailed drawing to my computer rather than try to open it direct from the email. File>open the saved file still gives me the same message that I need the 13.0.4123 version. What's bizarre is when I bought my new laptop and downloaded Sketchup onto it, that's the version I got. But I've now downloaded and (I think) installed on my desktop and still have the old version. Should I completely uninstall and reinstall?

I just tried to open a Sketchup file which I had e-mailed to me. A box popped up saying I have version 8.0.16845 and need version 13.0.4123. I went onto the Sketchup website and downloaded Sketchup again, thinking I would get the new version, but I see I still have the old one. I can find no reference to this new version anywhere on Sketchup's website. Anybody know what I do now?

I do most of my designing (furniture) on a Mac desktop. It would be useful to be able to email a drawing to my iPad so I could take that out to my shop and check dimensions, etc. I have seen ipad apps that will allow viewing, but not dimensioning, move/copy, etc. Does anyone know if this can be done?

That seems to work. Thanks again.

Quite possibly/probably. How do you determine the window size, and what could one do to make it smaller/narrower? By the way, I appreciate your help on this, thanks.

So if you don't get the same experience as me, that makes me wonder if there's something in my setup that's causing this. I will freely admit that from a computer literacy perspective, I would occupy the notch below Brutal (eg I'm having a fellow come over tomorrow to show me how to export stuff). Thus I'm not real sure how to go about evaluating my setup....

The print method is as simple as it gets- set up the page and document, then hit Print. Maybe it's a Mac quirk, but I just don't understand why it narrows the height, but not, apparently, the width. Also doesn't seem to matter if I print in perspective or scale (in front, side or top view, of course), I still have the problem. Exporting will probably work, although I like to do a lot of prints as I go along, since its nice to have a hard copy of a part finished design so I can sketch out some of my issues away from the computer.

Hello, I'm a woodworker from Canada who has been using Sketchup for about 6 months. I'm running it on a Mac. The thing that's driving me crazy is when I try to print a drawing, I'll set print Setup OK, but in Document Setup it will restrict the height (Portrait, for example) to about 4 inches of an 11 inch page. If I use Landscape it's a similar narrow band, wasting the rest of the page. Has anyone else had this problem and is there a fix?

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