Click out of Printer Driver Advanced Options.Here enter you required page size in portrait orientation (width less than height), click.Scroll down the paper sizes to select Postscript Custom Page Size.Open that printer, right-click > Printing Preferences > Layout tab click the button.Select the large format printer or PDF writer that you want the output on.Now use File > Page Layout and use the button as bottom right.
Use Tools > Diagram > Diagram Measurements to find out the size of the chart as a single page and write it down.First create your chart, edit it as you want ignoring default printer page size.
In Microsoft's wisdom, on the introduction of Vista and for all Windows systems since that button has been removed.įor Windows XP: ( with the button in File > Page Setup), VCF learnt about which printer to use and its page size when you set it in File > Page Setup. When TMG was first produced the Printer Page Setup window (a tool provided by Microsoft had a select button on it. (A pseudo-printer is an application that creates an entry as if it was a printer in Printers and Devices, but instead saves the output as a file of a particular format.)
This section will discuss how to use a PDF pseudo printer application like PDF995. Many users will not have a large format printer at home, but there are now many print shops with these printers (up to 60 inches or 1500 mm roll-fed) that can print from a PDF file for you. This can severely increase the page count for the chart. Similarly if a box spans a horizontal boundary, it moves the entire chart below that box’s top edge down. Repaginate starts at the top-left of the chart and examines each page boundary, and if a box spans a vertical page boundary, it moves the entire chart to the right of that box’s left boundary to the right. Using Tools > Diagram > Repaginate in VCF overcomes this. This means at any box that spans that boundary some detail of text is lost. Careful examination of content that crosses the page-to-page boundary is that at each horizontal or vertical boundary there is a loss of 3-4 pixels. But there is another problem if you print these out as say 100 pages and then try to sticky-tape them together. Then File > Print Preview will show you a matrix of pages that then cover the whole chart. In principle the default settings, zero on all edges, will require the least pages to print. So investigate what margins you really require. Many printers cannot print out to the edge of the page. The values of the Margins in this pop-up window are relative to the printable area that the default printer has – not the actual page size. It doesn’t transfer well to insert into Word document. This format is mainly used when a user has drawn an object that they want to use as a Custom Frame for subsequent TMG/VCF charts. It preserves items as separate items and they can be scaled. EMF – a format used inside Windows for graphics. On rescaling the straight lines tend to staircase. If the image is not to be rescaled too far from real size, where the image is captured at 96 pixels per inch. NOTE: There is a size limit for JPG format files, so some larger charts will fail to be converted. A JPG of a chart works fine on a website but is not the optimum for use in publishing a book. It is usually compressed and so loses some of the detail. JPG – a common format for images, but does not represent images with sharp contrasts very well. ExportingĮxporting the chart as an image generally takes away any change of later intelligent use of the image file. Thereafter in the same session, you can use the usual File > Save to overwrite that file if chart had been then edited. Unfortunately other can’t read it unless they have VCF installed. VC2 file is the most advantageous as it allows the file to be re-opened later, edited, etc, printed or an image of it saved for another purpose, like use on a website. Saving the chart in the VCF internal format as a. There are 3 alternatives of retaining a copy of that chart, each with its own merits and penalties: When you close VCF it will go away and will need to be recreated from scratch if you need it.
When VCF produces a screen view of a chart from TMG, that chart is not automatically stored on disk. Setting up to print large pages for reunions, etc Saving a chart file that you can later use or edit Topics Included in this Articleĭescribes each type of output and why you might use it How you can produce files or print paper copies of your chart. Robin's VCF Tips - Saving, Exporting & Printing Robins's Visual Chart Form Tips Saving, Exporting & Printing