Michael:
In most cases most printers use a standard size of paper in which
case you would ordinarily use a printer driver that matches the
printer hooked up to your computer HOWEVER...plotters are somewhat
specialised in their paper sizes using non standard paper
sizes....(Standard paper sizes would be letter, legal or even
11x17...Much harder to find a printer that prints on that size paper
but still can be done. Plotters often use 36 in wide sheets or other
variants.....if you downloaded a plotter driver and played with it a
bit you would find a whole gamut of strange and wonderful paper sizes
that you could use to"fool" your computer into thinking that that's
the printer you were planning on using. The idea is to give you a
sense of the size of the chart....and that's when you can use legacy
to expand and decrease the print sizes etc. to get it to look exactly
the way you want it to...If you actually tried to USE that printer
driver to print you would get an error message since you don't have a
plotter hooked up to your computer. What you want is the print
preview feature. Computers are basically stupid...if you tell them
you have a printer hooked up to your computer they will believe you...
To do all this, you need to:
download a plotter driver
install it...and make it your default printer in Windows control panel
use Legacy to format the chart and make any adjustments to font, etc
while having the plotter print driver selected as your default
printer. save the chart....and then go back to the printer driver
that you ordinarily use. The plotter driver is only for show....At
03:55 PM 09/09/2009, you wrote:
Kathy:
Thank you for this suggestion. I am not schooled on computers, so
please be patient with me. What does the printer driver have to do
with the printer selection. I thought the computer recognizes, as
a default, my current printer. Do I go into my control panel and
add a printer? Is there something I should do in Legacy?
Mike Barberi
In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
From: Kathy Shiell-Stokes <shearerfamilyt...@3web.com>
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 10:17:59 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report Sizing
Michael:
I would suggest that you contact the outlet you have selected to do
the printing and find out from them what printer drivers they
use(assuming that they are using a plotter type printer)
Once you know which printer/plotter they are using, download the
driver and then, using that driver, format your chart according to
the paper sizes available for that printer/plotter. That should give
you a pretty exact chart size and make the chart a dream for them to print.
Kathy
At 09:21 PM 08/09/2009, you wrote:
> Thank you Jenny. I did realize that the size at the bottom of
the screen was the rectangle created by the pages. I just don't
know how to change this size. Where do you choose the size of
paper to print on?
>
> Mike Barberi
>
> In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas.
> In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love.
> St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430)
>
>
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