how do i get the image big enough to fill the page?
i played with scale and got the mesurements sorts readable
You have checked the box Display so it should print exactly what you have displayed on the screen. Obvioulsy you would have to set the paper to Landscape and check the Centre on Page and it should automatically fill the page with what you are displaying on the screen.
As you can see by the image, the Preview in the Print Dialog is showing exactly what is in the TFP display and this is what it printed.
Allan
good try but no cigar.
basically there is too much white space around the picture
why not save image output as .bmp and use another program to post process to get the final size and crop off whitespace?
Quote from: Doug.S on March 29, 2008, 08:21:17 PM
why not save image output as .bmp and use another program to post process to get the final size and crop off whitespace?
that is what i have been doing - but it would be better if the image was bigger to start with.
thanks
If you have the settings the same as in my image above it should fill the page with whatever is in the TFP window plus the printers own print margin. Certainly works for me. Have you adjusted the Scale settings under View / View Properties?
Allan
Quote from: Allan Chesney on March 30, 2008, 03:16:01 AM
If you have the settings the same as in my image above it should fill the page with whatever is in the TFP window plus the printers own print margin. Certainly works for me. Have you adjusted the Scale settings under View / View Properties?
Allan
yes thanks
I also sometimes save as a "print to .pdf"
there are many free programs to do so such as PDFCreator from sourcforge.net
Since a pdf printer will try to generate both vector and bitmap output in one file, you can save to a large "paper" and use hi res such as 1200 dpi to get much better images....and depending on your output needs .pdf may be suitable or you can print the .pdf or copy paste to other applications etc.
The image quality differences are dramatic...of course file sizes for better quality are bigger too as well as file generation time.
In the .pdf result you can zoom-in and still have high quality images
Don't believe it? I've run comparison tests of a TFP save 2D .bmp image, screen shot, and .pdf "print" and pdf is much better if you save to a higher quality dpi and page size....yet you can shrink to a smaller size and keep image quality if you want.
Quote from: Doug.S on March 31, 2008, 09:58:41 PM
I also sometimes save as a "print to .pdf"
there are many free programs to do so such as PDFCreator from sourcforge.net
Since a pdf printer will try to generate both vector and bitmap output in one file, you can save to a large "paper" and use hi res such as 1200 dpi to get much better images....and depending on your output needs .pdf may be suitable or you can print the .pdf or copy paste to other applications etc.
The image quality differences are dramatic...of course file sizes for better quality are bigger too as well as file generation time.
In the .pdf result you can zoom-in and still have high quality images
Don't believe it? I've run comparison tests of a TFP save 2D .bmp image, screen shot, and .pdf "print" and pdf is much better if you save to a higher quality dpi and page size....yet you can shrink to a smaller size and keep image quality if you want.
thanks
i would never have known pdf would make such a difference!