Project 2000 Large Format Printing

[joemz]

When I attempt to print a gantt chart in MS Project 2000, on a large format
plotter, print preview shows it broken into 11 pages, all of which only
occupy the top 1/2 of the overall page. If I set it to print 1 page tall by 1
wide, it all gets squished up at the top 1/4 of the page. What is going on?
Any suggestions? I have set my timeline dates..

Please advise. Thanks so much

 

[JulieD]

Hi

i've had similar problems when printing to a HP Plotter ... things we did -
re-installed the printer drivers after downloading them from the HP site.
Set the plotter as the DEFAULT printer in the control panel and set the
paper size up there. In project set the paper size in file / page setup.

it then worked.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
JulieD
PS one other thing i learnt - check that all subtasks are displayed, it's
really annoying printing off two A0 sized sheets and discovering three
subtasks are hiding!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve Kearon]

it sounds to me as if the gantt chart to be displayed is "naturally" about
11 pages wide, by 0.5 page high.

This is quite common - the width is dictated by the column widths + the
gantt timescale, while the height is dictated by the number of tasks & the
fonts used.

When you select "fit to 1 page tall by 1 wide", MSProject simply scales the
chart to fit on the page. In your case, this means that the chart will be
about 1/11th the original size (to fit the 11 pages wide onto a single
page). Project keeps the height+width in proportion, so the height will also
be scaled to 1/11th its original size - that's why it ends up about 1/22nd
page height.

The main thing you can do is to adjust the timescale of the gantt to be more
compact or show less time, that way the chart will have width-to-height
proportions more like your paper proportions, so any scaling will be more
likely to fill the entire page (even if its been scaled so much that text is
unreadable).

Hope this helps
Steve