Printing a Map
Hi,
i have asked some questions to mapdrawing. Thanks for the answers. Now, i finished a spaceship with 3 decks.
It is a great spaceship, so one deck is really great. I think a battlemap would be A2 (one deck :-)). Now, i want it to be printed in a printshop.
I have read hear, that it would be best to make a PDF (and in the printshop, they need a pdf). I tried this evening to make a pdf, but i don't get it. I tried to make a A2-PDF, but the PDF showed only a small area with really great pixels.
Has anybody an idea, what i am doing wrong? Is there a tutorial for the printing?
Bye
Axel
i have asked some questions to mapdrawing. Thanks for the answers. Now, i finished a spaceship with 3 decks.
It is a great spaceship, so one deck is really great. I think a battlemap would be A2 (one deck :-)). Now, i want it to be printed in a printshop.
I have read hear, that it would be best to make a PDF (and in the printshop, they need a pdf). I tried this evening to make a pdf, but i don't get it. I tried to make a A2-PDF, but the PDF showed only a small area with really great pixels.
Has anybody an idea, what i am doing wrong? Is there a tutorial for the printing?
Bye
Axel
Comments
i am using PDF-Creator
1. i am not able to print a part of my ship directly with CC3 in the right propotions for a battlemap (1 inch on the paper is = 1 square in the drawing)
2. i am not able to make a pdf that i could give to a Copyshop to print it in the correct proportion.
Is there a touturial? Or can anybody tell me, what settings i have to use? I am becomeing desparete.
If you are going to take the PDF to a print shop that will print it to a large carrier printer then you will also need to specify the dimensions for the sheet from the properties of your pdf software. So if your print will be 24" x 36" you will have to select a custom setting for that. If you don't do that your print will come out as multiple pages of your default page size.