Sheet effects printing incorrectly across multiple pages...

happycamper

I'm getting some really funny results on my printouts, perhaps someone can tell me why...

When I print a large dungeon across several sheets of paper, the sheet effects don't carry over between pages of paper...

For example: If I have a statue with a long shadow (due to sheet effects), and it's just "off" the page break on one sheet of paper, the adjacent sheet of paper (without the statue) does not have the shadow show up in the printout (even though it's clearly there on when I look at it in the program).

Is the only solution to this to have an extremely large % overlap when printing out on multiple pages? (Basically, the lighting effects always get all off when taping papers back together to make a large map again...)

Is there a setting I've got set up wrong? (I think my last printout was with sheet effects on, printing on something like 7x2 grid of papers, using the "print everything on the screen view" option of printing...)

Help/advice/ or simply telling me this is a "known issue" would be great...

Ralf

Unfortunately, this is indeed a limitation in the effect rendering of CC3. Entities that cast shadows have to be (at least partially) on the tiled page.

As a workaround, you can do the following: Print your dungeon map to pdf in large size (A0, A1, etc), then use the "Poster Print" option in Adobe Reader X to tile print your map to A4/US letter pages.

happycamper

Posted By: RalfUnfortunately, this is indeed a limitation in the effect rendering of CC3. Entities that cast shadows have to be (at least partially) on the tiled page.

As a workaround, you can do the following: Print your dungeon map to pdf in large size (A0, A1, etc), then use the "Poster Print" option in Adobe Reader X to tile print your map to A4/US letter pages.

That would be an option, however, if you noticed my previous posts, CC3 can't currently print to very large poster prints. (talking 36" x 36", etc...) which is the size of my map.... I think the largest I got was a 24x36 or something... anything more and all that is printed out is a faded grey outline of the floor (no symbols, tiles, etc...)

About all I can do I guess is make sure the overlap is large enough to have most edge effects ignored...

mosswood17

Hey Happycamper! I had the same problem not long ago.

Ralf was saying that you export the whole drawing to a high resolution PDF (I use PDF Creator, there is a link at Profantasy somewhere). Don't tile this export to PDF, just do it all in one go at a higher resolution.

Tile the print through Adobe Reader (has to be release version X, 9 didn't have the poster printing as an option). It prints out very nice.

There is a link to download PDF Creator I copied from a link in the Printing Annual document.
http://dl1.profantasy.com/library/files/PDFCreator-0_9_5_setup.exe

happycamper

Posted By: mosswood17Hey Happycamper! I had the same problem not long ago.

Ralf was saying that you export the whole drawing to a high resolution PDF (I use PDF Creator, there is a link at Profantasy somewhere). Don't tile this export to PDF, just do it all in one go at a higher resolution.

Tile the print through Adobe Reader (has to be release version X, 9 didn't have the poster printing as an option). It prints out very nice.

There is a link to download PDF Creator I copied from a link in the Printing Annual document.
http://dl1.profantasy.com/library/files/PDFCreator-0_9_5_setup.exe

Thanks! How do you print large posters with PDF Creator? When I use PDF Creator (or CutePDF), my large custom sized PDF files do not print out correctly. Nothing larger than about 5.5MB prints correctly..... (see my other post(s) about printing high res PDFs... I'm not getting them to work. (My initial PDF creator package didn't do custom sizes so I looked here and found PDF Creator and CutePDF, neither of which will print large poster sizes...)

I've attached the CC3 file below, perhaps it is something with my installation? I can't get it to print larger than 35"x35"... (Even with sheet effects off...)

Ralf

I've done the following with CutePDF:

- Zoom to the section of the map you want to print (or the whole map)
- click Print
- select CutePDF as printer
- click Properties
- choose the XXX settings
- set dpi to 300 (normally enough for a home print), set a custom size to 36" by 36"
- click OK and start printing

It took a while for the printing to finish, but it came out fine. Perhaps you still have the default 1200dpi setting? That might overwhelm the system/printer for such a large print.

happycamper

Posted By: RalfI've done the following with CutePDF:

- Zoom to the section of the map you want to print (or the whole map)
- click Print
- select CutePDF as printer
- click Properties
- choose the XXX settings
- set dpi to 300 (normally enough for a home print), set a custom size to 36" by 36"
- click OK and start printing

It took a while for the printing to finish, but it came out fine. Perhaps you still have the default 1200dpi setting? That might overwhelm the system/printer for such a large print.

Sweet... let me try that. I was worried about file sizes or something... Am I changing a default in CC3 or in CutePDF? (I'm assuming CC3 and will poke around there...)

I was counting on a setting somewhere being a problem... and file size was one culprit as it worked up to a certain size, then fails...

happycamper

OK. So I was running at 600dpi, and that was my problem. I knocked things down to 300dpi and now I can print the entire thing to scale: 56"x74"... I didn't try it with sheets on, I"ll do that next. I assume that will also work.

Thanks for helping me find the setting that was the problem. (A little disappointed I can't run things at 600dpi to preserve better quality but 300dpi will have to do... I know it's not my computer that's the problem... I got it to edit HD video so it's running 12GB of RAM...)

We'll call this problem solved, perhaps not optimally, but good enough for now...

EDIT: OK, I've gone to try Sheets being on as well, and that crashes and burns with a Visual C++ runtime error... CC3 seems to crash and burn, not CutePDF. I'm trying to print the map above, using 300dpi onto a 56" x 75" page using the custom size of CutePDF...

Ralf

I'm looking into this.