I can't be the first person to want a good old, single big sheet, write-on-
able paper schematic in these days of service manuals on discs. Does anyone
have a method that works well for them?

My specific goal is a paper sheet (or a stitched paper sheet) of the
schematic for my Toshiba 55Hx70 big screen.

Thanks.

Subject: Getting a paper schematic from a PDF?
From: Mistress
Date: 10/12/04 6:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Does anyone
have a method that works well for them?



Opening the PDF with Adobe Acrobat will give you the option of printing the
pages you need. Depending how they're assembled, you may have to tape it
together.

John

Mistress posted:

I can't be the first person to want a good old, single big sheet, write-on-
able paper schematic in these days of service manuals on discs. Does anyone
have a method that works well for them?

My specific goal is a paper sheet (or a stitched paper sheet) of the
schematic for my Toshiba 55Hx70 big screen.


I must be missing something....... I just print the PDF file. When I want
larger pages than my printer can do, I take the file to a print shop.

Don

In article ,
says...
I must be missing something....... I just print the PDF file. When I want
larger pages than my printer can do, I take the file to a print shop.



What I didn't explain well is that these schematics run on for 55 pages.

Mistress wrote:

In article ,
says...

I must be missing something....... I just print the PDF file. When I want
larger pages than my printer can do, I take the file to a print shop.

What I didn't explain well is that these schematics run on for 55 pages.

So is your question
o How do I print several small schematics on several small pages, or
o How do I print several small parts of one big schematic on several
pages, so you can tape them together into one big sheet?

Both are quite straightforward. Let us know what you need to do.

Bill

"Mistress" wrote in message
. ..
| In article ,
| says...
| I must be missing something....... I just print the PDF file. When I
want
| larger pages than my printer can do, I take the file to a print shop.

| What I didn't explain well is that these schematics run on for 55 pages.

Actually, what you didn't explain is what the correct size of the schematics
is. Are they plan sized (like 36” x 42”)?

N

I think there's something in "page setup" or "printer setup" or something like
that.

As the computers are not close to my bench, I usually just need to print a
section, in which I use a screen capture in a graphics program.

Incedentally, as one respondant said, he takes the file to a print shop. This
is a good idea, because the ink in a regular printer is water soluble and can
be marred too easily. Spill a drop of coffe on that and it will wipe it out, if
you get it laser printed you just wipe it of and all is well.

Some printer drivers have options to do what you want, as do some programs. Had
you an NAP set, the Force software on their CD allows for spreading their hard
to read prints across 4 pages or whatever.

Incedentally, "Mistress@s&m" ( deal with the s&m part later ), I assume you are
a woman, is that correct ? I ask because I've found very very few women in the
field, and actually few even have the slightest interest. Even with the
supposed disparity in physical strength, gender doesn't matter. Quite a few top
notch techs don't move bigscreens, men, even if strong enough. Put it this way,
there may well be more woman auto mechanics than TV (or other brownware) techs.

Just curious.

JURB

JURB6006 wrote:
I think there's something in "page setup" or "printer setup" or something like
that.

As the computers are not close to my bench, I usually just need to print a
section, in which I use a screen capture in a graphics program.

If all you want to do is print a piece, then the Acrobat Reader has the
capture tool built in. It is the little camera icon with the dotted
line around it. You click the icon, draw a box around the piece you
want, and Acrobat captures it on the clipboard. Then you just drop it
into any graphics program and print it. No special graphics program
needed - Microsoft Paint (which has come on every Windows computer since
the Civil War) will do just fine.

Bill

Acrobat Reader has the
capture tool built in. It is the little camera icon with the dotted
line around it.

Is there a way to force it to the whole screen so that the capture size is
constant ? This would allow you to move it one exact screen over and print the
next section. I don't mind taping them together, but the way I do it, it's very
difficult to get exactly the same size capture. The program I use is
PaintShopPro, which is set in page setup to use full page AND to maintain
aspect ratio. Sometimes I kick the monitor resolution up to 1920 to get the
best results.

I'll have to try the camera icon, but will it print full page even if the
capture was smaller ? I'll keep you "posted" and thanks for the tip, especially
if it works.

JURB

If you want a good screen capture program, try Snagit, available from
techsmith.com