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Rocko & others: until you get an official response (and I am anxious to hear it) consider this. If you have access to an HP designjet plotter, you can use the Zoom Smart feature of the driver to scale your drawing. This takes care of your line weight and arrowhead problems, and has the added benefit of helping you avoid one of those accidental saves you might make after you have scaled your drawing objects for some miniature print-only purpose. Scaling using the driver will also present some headaches as the plotter clips the margins of the drawings using byzantine dimensional formalae. Getting the driver and the print window to both show what you want takes some manuvering. Go to Page, Set Print Area, choose One Page at the top of the list & close out. Go to Print Set-up, choose your HP plotter, click on Properties, choose the Page Size tab and set the desired scaling factor. Often your scaling factor will cause conflict with the application page size and will require adjustment or reshape of your print window. I have found that by closing-out of page set-up after setting a small scaling factor, and then returning to print set-up allows me to choose from a larger variety of application page sizes than when starting from the presumption of 100% scale. Try different "application page sizes" in the print setup until the print window in your drawing shows what you want to see. If you have to plot reduced copies of many drawing files, note the specifics of your print configuration, once you have gotten them correct and set them up as the default configuration for your plotter working from the Windows Start/Settings/Printers path. When you do this, the greif of matching scaling factor and "application page size" to show what you want is not relived each time you go to plot. If you are a professional using VW for work, and don't have a plotter give it some serious serious thought. I bought a refurbished HP 350C for $2,500 three years ago, and it changed my LIFE. Work life anyway. The plotter has been almost completely trouble-free and when it has not been, he plotter regime of HP tech-support guys is worthy of your professional time. If you just want to do 11x17 check plots, there are some cheaper HP's that would be good. If you need to do reduced size plots very seldom, you could get the HP driver and make prn files and e-mail to you local reproduction house. Hope this helps you.

quote: Originally posted by MikeB: On a Mac copy the worksheet and paste it into the scrap book, which is in your apple menu. Then copy it out of the scrap book and back into drawing file, it will be lines and text boxes which can be exported. I don't know what you can do on a PC. Good Luck Unfortunately, I am a windows user. I wonder if there is something analogous to scrapbook in windows?

I saw the following on the BB. I'm having major trouble with fonts exporting to ACAD whic allows scaling and has differnt vertical heigt reference standards. Any advice would be much appreciated. (I use VW for Windows) quote: Originally posted by CADD Nark: i made a couple of fonts with Fontagrapher and exported them to both platforms as Trutype and Postscript (for those antique printers around the office). the demo version of the software should be able to export those fonts if you want to try it. they work great and i even use them for AutoCad translation (VW sets all custom fonts to Standard in the Export to DWG function). hope this helps.

I am about to have to do this on a job with 20 sheets, and I imagine that it will produce major headaches like with ACAD particularly with fonts and text positioning. Advice much appreciated. JEB

What can be done to retain speadsheet content on export? If a spreadsheet could be converted into a table or a bunch of polygons and text it would be helpful. I have heard that the speadsheet can be exported to Excel, converted to a table, and pasted back to VW. Sounds onerous. Ready to give-up on using spreadsheets for my schedules. Also, there is a major column width problem with speadsheets. Adjusting one column with the cursor tool can change all at once, and require resetting each one numerically.

Is there a way to get(or perhaps make using a type manager)fonts to match (proprietary)autocad fonts? We need to go back & forth with client using auto cad. Text position and fonts are a disaster every time. Their typical font is simplex, an shx font which autocad allows scaling of width. Our TTF Simplex is much wider than theirs, and all vertical font size adjustments are completely out of whack. Also,is there a font alignment (or insertion point) policy could observe to avoid text shifting on export. We spend days re-attaching leaders and moving notes after things shift on import. One day we will miss one an have a lawsuit.