Worksheet wrap text problem

[MBMD]

I'm having a problem where the vectorworks worksheet shows up correctly in the drawing but when I print it cuts off words and wraps text before the end of the cell. Any ideas what could be causing this?

[Pat Stanford]

What platform are you on? Windows or Mac? Maybe put this in your signature so it is available with every post.

Do you have either Quartz imaging (Mac) or GDI+ imagine (Windows) turned on in the Vectorwork Preferences, Display tab.

If you do have it on, try it with it off.

Also, check your Font Mappings (Edit Font Mappings in the same VW Prefences pane). It may be that you are mapping one of the fonts but when you send it to the printer, it is a built in font in the printer and using that one that has different character widths.

[islandmon]

And make sure your page set-up is correct. Are you printing from a SheetLayer or a DesignLayer ?

[MBMD]

The worksheet is inserted directly onto the sheet layer. Now that you mention it, I'm going to try and do it from a viewport and see if that helps.

[MBMD]

Didn't help any. Did the samething threw a viewport.

[MBMD]

Windows Xp

Vectorworks 2008

GDI+ is off

Fonts map to arial (I'm using architxt which looks different so its not maping to arial)

Its more of a margin problem within the cells. Its wraping text halfway threw the cell causing 3 or 4 lines of text. The bottom two lines then get cut off even if the cells are set to auto adjust.

[Pat Stanford]

VW is sensitive to font problems. Do you have a utility to check your font and see if it is damaged?

Have you tried changing the font to something else to see if the problem goes away? It is does, it is probably a problem with the font.

[MBMD]

I switched it to Arial and it did the same thing.

[MBMD]

I narrowed it down to a printing problem. When I print to PDF or when I plot to the 36" printer it changes some worksheets. When I print to 8.5x11 printer it prints fine. Is there a printer setting some hidden place?

[Pat Stanford]

How are you printing to PDF? Are you using the same printer driver as for your 36" printer? What happens when you Export to PDF from the File:Export menu?

Have you checked to see if you have the most current printer driver for your 36" printer?

What printer are you using?

[MBMD]

When I go file:export to pdf it don't prints about half my drawing. I print threw adobe to make pdfs. I've checked every setting I can find in there and nothing.

[islandmon]

What is your Page set-up in the edit> Sheet... bet you it's set to letter size.

[MBMD]

30x42, if that was wrong the whole sheet would be messed up. Its only the worksheet being effected.

[Pat Stanford]

What happens if you set up a 30x42 sheet in another program, say Word or Excel and try to print it. Does it wrap funny or cut off?

I still think that it is a printer driver or font problem.

Try creating a new VW file and import the worksheet through the Resource Browser. Does it print correctly from the new file? You could have some corruption in the VW file.