Visio 2002 large drawing print problem

[nejit]

Hi,

We need to print large drawing (3570mm x 597mm) from Visio 2002 on Ricoh RW
470 plotter. By default, any predefined paper size were too small and it is
not possible set custom size. We following instruction by Microsoft “How to
Create Custom Forms in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000â€
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157172/EN-US/ and create some custom size
paper we need. We then successful print drawing with length about 2500mm, but
now we need to print larger drawing and we have problem – when we select
paper size more than 3000mm (we set predefined sizes from 1.5m to 5m length
with step 0.5m), the Printer Paper value become negative and so printing
impossible. The printer itself can print documents up to 6m, we also check
our big predefined paper sizes in other application (f.e. AutoCAD) – all
works fine. So, as we can see, the problem is in Visio.

Can you help to resolve this problem?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nejit,

You may want to check with the folks in the MS Office Visio
newsgroup on this as well (links below)

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Hi,

We need to print large drawing (3570mm x 597mm) from Visio 2002 on Ricoh RW
470 plotter. By default, any predefined paper size were too small and it is
not possible set custom size. We following instruction by Microsoft "How to
Create Custom Forms in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/157172/EN-US/ and create some custom size
paper we need. We then successful print drawing with length about 2500mm, but
now we need to print larger drawing and we have problem - when we select
paper size more than 3000mm (we set predefined sizes from 1.5m to 5m length
with step 0.5m), the Printer Paper value become negative and so printing
impossible. The printer itself can print documents up to 6m, we also check
our big predefined paper sizes in other application (f.e. AutoCAD) - all
works fine. So, as we can see, the problem is in Visio.

Can you help to resolve this problem?

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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
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A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.visio
or via browser:
http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.visio
B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Bob I]

Have you tried making a 1/2 size "drawing", plotting that, then run it
through the copier and enlarge to 2x?