Lines Printing outside of my viewport

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Pykosomp, Oct 18, 2004.

  1. Pykosomp

    Pykosomp Guest

    Hi Folks,

    I set up my layout with a view port to the model.
    I Haven't drawn anything on the layout.
    But for some reason, when I plot to my printer (HP LJ 2550L or HP LJ 2300DN), the lines (and sometimes objects) print outside of the viewport perimeter. The thicker the linetype, the worse it 'bleeds' through the veiwport perimeter.

    Would it be a resolution problem? An AutoCAD setting problem? A Printer problem? Linetype problem? I've got no ideas left! Help! :)

    Cheers,

    Rob
     
    Pykosomp, Oct 18, 2004
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  2. Pykosomp

    Pykosomp Guest

    If anyone has a similar problem, here is a work around I used:

    Change your TrueType Text settings to print as images.
    Publish the 'paperspace' or 'layout' to a DWF file.
    Print the page from the DWF viewer.

    That stopped the lines from 'bleeding' through the view port and stopped text from printing outside the veiwport perimeter.

    Cheers!
     
    Pykosomp, Oct 19, 2004
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  3. I'm pretty sure this is an AutoCAD bug and I think there was a tech article
    on it that suggested using an older driver to compensate for it.

    Personally I think all revolves around the fact that AutoCAD does not
    properly recognize margins for Windows printers if the printer has an
    unprintable area that is less than 1/8". If you pick say a PDF driver in
    AutoCAD to plot to the printable area for an 8.5x11.0 will be something like
    8.25x10.75 even though the margins for the driver are set at 0.0. Explain
    that calculation. It's a load of crap is what it is and for some reason
    they have refused to fix this since AutoCAD 2000. Even my little brain can
    write the 10 lines of code that return the actual margins for the printer
    correctly. And they are already doing it because if the driver has a margin
    over 1/8" then it display it correctly. But for whatever reason they have a
    line of code is there that say if the margin is less than 1/8" then it is
    1/8".

    So what this does is that AutoCAD ends up sending the wrong clipping planes
    to the printer. Again, another bug. Graphics are sent correctly but not
    clipping planes? So on 1 side typically the text and lines will stick out
    and the other they will end up being short of the viewport borders. At
    least that's what we've seen.

    So the reason the older driver is suggested is probably because it has a
    larger minimum margin for the page because older printers/plotters could not
    print all the way to the edge.

    Now sometimes if you use a pc3 file it also clears it up because you can
    specify the margins for each page size. But not always. And it usually
    happens to True Type Text because if the text is sent as text an entire
    letter has to be sent and then a clipping plane is sent to the printer for
    the portion that does not actually get printed.

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    text from printing outside the veiwport perimeter.
     
    Rodney McManamy - CADzation, Oct 20, 2004
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  4. Pykosomp

    Pykosomp Guest

    Wow, okay, that explains a lot! I appreciate the info. Thank you!
     
    Pykosomp, Oct 21, 2004
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