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Tutorial: Print your arcade project across multiple pages
leapinlew:
Lets say you wanted to print your control panel or side profile for your cabinet and you have an image thats larger than your printer can print. I'm sure there are several ways to solve this problem, but here is my solution.
What you will need for this project
Visio (I'm using version 2003)
Printer
Step 1
Open Visio and insert the picture you want to print. In this instance I'm using a side profile shot of Galaga
You'll notice I have the Ruler on. You can turn this feature on by selecting View>Ruler
Step 2
I changed the % so I can view the whole image . I click the image and it creates the green squares that you can drag the image to the size you want.
Step 3
Next we tell Visio to print the image across multiple sheets of paper by selecting File>Page Setup and on the Page Size tab click the radio box that says "size to fit drawing contents". It will show you how many sheets your image will need to be printed on.
Thats the way I do it! I'm sure there are other ways to do this - I'd be interested how others are doing it.
Tahnok:
I use Visio as well, but I try to go easier on my printer by cropping out anything that can be figured out by measuring. For example, with that profile you show, I would cut off the entire lower part up to the CP curve and possibly even the straight vertical line between the CP and top. It's easy to then place just the curves from measurements taken in Visio.
IG-88:
How do you crop the image so that only the drawing itself is shown and not the background?
leapinlew:
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It happens automatically as soon as you select the size to fit option
patrickl:
You can do the same in Illustrator.
From the menu select File -> Print. In the listbox on the top left of print dialog select "Setup". In the Tiling combobox choose the tiling option you want. I used "Tile Full Pages" and your set.
You can position the art on the pages (lower left of the dialog) so the print is positioned nicely on the pages (no broken curves if possible).
You can even see the page tiling while you are drawing (from the menu select View -> Show Page Tiling)