PDF Printing issues in PCadd 9

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Re: PDF Printing issues in PCadd 9

Post by RTCool » Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:38 am

I have a new problem today. My D-Size PDF documents won't print properly at 50% reduction on 12x18 on my Epson printer from either Acrobat or Preview. What I get is maybe 52%, so not to scale but close? Printing straight from PC works correctly. Absolutely frustrating. I can't make sense of it.

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Re: PDF Printing issues in PCadd 9

Post by patrickm » Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:43 pm

You've probably already done this, but...
In the print dialog box, do you have it expanded to "show details" and verified that the scale is set to 100%?

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Re: PDF Printing issues in PCadd 9

Post by RTCool » Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:51 am

It's really weird and frustrating. Something about the printer. It seems to only happen with a PDF file reduced 50% to 12x18 paper, which is a custom paper size and "user defined" on the printer itself. If I print 50% straight from PowerCADD (no PDF in between), no problem! If I print 50% reduced to 13x19 paper (a standard, built-in paper size) from PDF, no problem! I remember years ago struggling with roll fed panoramas with full width 13" paper until an Epson rep at a trade show told me I had to spec it as 12.95" not 13", and that fixed that problem.

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