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topic: 1013Printing on A3 landscape
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posted: 15 Jan 2010 23:48

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Robert Preston
 
Wirral - United Kingdom

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I've just bought Templot and started experimenting with it and have come unstuck with printing. Can anyone point me in the right direction, please? I have an A3 printer (Lasertjet 5000, and I'm running Windows XP). The crossover I have made will print on the A3 paper – but only in portrait orientation. The result is, the crossover prints on two pages, whereas if I could get it to print landscape, it would all print on one page.

 I have set the printer to A3 landscape, and in Templot, I have set the print orientation to sideways (and I have tried all the permutations) but it still prints across the paper. What am I missing?

Robert

posted: 16 Jan 2010 06:07

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Robert Preston wrote:
I have set the printer to A3 landscape, and in Templot, I have set the print orientation to sideways (and I have tried all the permutations) but it still prints across the paper. What am I missing?
Hi Robert,

Don't change to Landscape -- set your printer to Portrait, and leave Templot on the default Portrait setting. :)

N.B. If your printer has an "auto-rotate" feature, make sure it is switched off.

To get the best fit of most track plans on the printed templates, Templot rotates the screen view through 90 degrees when printing. This means that the top edge of the printed page always corresponds to the left edge of the screen view.

This sometimes causes confusion for new Templot users -- generally you will get the best results if you simply leave Templot on the default setting, which is called upright / end-run / portrait printing.

As a guide, Templot displays the printing page outlines on the screen as dotted lines. So you should be able to see how your crossover will print.

Here are some diagrams:


1. Default setting -- end-run / portrait:

print_orient_endrun_screen.pngprint_orient_endrun_screen.png

print_orient_endrun_print.pngprint_orient_endrun_print.png


2. side-run / landscape:

print_orient_siderun_screen.pngprint_orient_siderun_screen.png

print_orient_siderun_print.pngprint_orient_siderun_print.png


More info: http://www.templot.com/martweb/gs_printing.htm#orientation

regards,

Martin.

posted: 16 Jan 2010 12:04

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Robert Preston
 
Wirral - United Kingdom

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Thanks Martin, I was forgetting the KISS principle.

Robert



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