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Printing PDF files to scale
Printing PDF files to scale
There are multiple places where the scale is controlled and it's very easy to get one of them wrong. It only takes one to alter the scale of your output. This article works backwards from paper to the setup in AutoCAD.
- Printer/plotter driver. Check your printer settings for a scale or shrink to fit setting. Uncheck shrink to fit to print real scale. In some printer drivers, this setting is a few menu levels down.
- Do not scale the PDF when it is printed to the printer.
- Bluebeam Revu
- On the File menu, click Print.
- Select None in the Page Scaling list.
- Acrobat 5
- On the File menu, click Print.
- Clear the Shrink oversized pages check box.
- Clear the Expand small pages check box.
- Acrobat 6 and above
- On the File menu, click Print.
- Select None in the Page Scaling list.
- Bluebeam Change Settings (plug-in only): Click the Change Settings button in the Bluebeam tool bar or in the Bluebeam menu, click Change Settings. Bluebeam PDF Revu can either use the settings defined in a Bluebeam Change Settings Page Setup, or it can override these settings through the Layout's Page Setup tab.
- Select Custom or Global from the list to enable these settings.
- Select the correct Paper size.
- Plot Scale: Select 1:1 or the appropriate scale for real size PDF output.
If Native (AutoCAD) is selected in the Page Setup list, Bluebeam uses the settings from the AutoCAD Page Setup described below. Using these override settings is optional.
- AutoCAD Page setup
- In AutoCAD, click File, then Page Setup or click the Layout tab, then right click the tab and then click Page Setup.
- Click the Layout Settings tab.
- Select the correct Page Size.
- Select the correct Plot Scale (this needs to match the Viewport scale below).
- AutoCAD Viewport settings
- Double click on the Viewport.
- or -
- Select the Viewport and right click and then click Properties.
- Standard Scale and Custom Scale in the Misc section control
the model space view scale in the Viewport
- Select the scale.
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