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Subject:RE: Visio --> pdf weirdness From:"Steve Hudson" <cruddy -at- optushome -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 May 2002 13:36:58 +1000
The culprit here is Visio's dependance on page size.
It tries to scale every drawing to the currently selected printer's default
page size.
Ensure your default size in the distiller ppd is the same as the one you
will be printing to and ensure this printer is selected as default before
starting Visio.
There's a half-dozen settings come into it :-(
Steve Hudson - Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-62124 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Meg Halter
Sent: Friday, 24 May 2002 9:49 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Visio --> pdf weirdness
Hi Techwhirlers --
Here's a strange one that I hope someone can help me with. I
have a Visio 2000 Pro block diagram that fits on 8.5" x 14"
landscape page. When I attempt to print it to Distiller (Acrobat
5.0.5) the diagram prints out as though Distiller had to mash up
the difference between 11" and 14" into 1". The part that's in
the 0" - 11" part of the page looks fine. I've dinked and dinked
with the page setup and distiller settings with no luck at all.
A visit to Acrobat's website has been disappointing -- attempts
to search the knowledge base result in no response. It doesn't
hang, just nothing happens.
Ironically, I started on this because I noticed that an earlier
pdf of this file (probably done with Acrobat 4) was just a
little mangled, like the fonts were changed. After today's
experience, that pdf doesn't look quite as bad.
Any ideas?
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