I'm using VW 12.5 for an extremely simple task: I'm trying to generate a floor plan for a house my daughter is buying. I measured the rooms and drew corresponding rectangles on one layer that I used as a guide, then used the wall and door tools on another layer, snapping to my guide rectangles, to make the floor plan.
All works easily until I try to print. It's a simple document, 140 objects and a few layers (one layer is a grid of squares with various line widths to serve as graph paper). Except for walls and doors, the most complicated thing is a rectangle with white fill. OK, there's about 20 characters of text too.
But when I print, it's a catastrophe. Nothing ever comes out of the printer (HP LJ5M with extra memory) even if I wait 10 hours--the printer just stays busy "processing".
I try printing to PDF, and that goes very quickly and results in a tiny PDF file that displays fine on screen--but it too fails to print within 10 hours.
If I change the dpi to 72 the document prints in less than an hour, but still preposterously slow for its simple nature, and the quality of course is awful.
What works best is to do a screen capture, and print that.
I tried generating PostScript, and it distills rapidly to the PDF, which again views fine on screen but can't print in finite time.
Surely this can't be right--there must be something about printing that is weird with VW that I don't understand.
Can anyone help?
Is there any way to get the vectors and fills out to some other program that can print, like Illustrator?
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I'm using VW 12.5 for an extremely simple task: I'm trying to generate a floor plan for a house my daughter is buying. I measured the rooms and drew corresponding rectangles on one layer that I used as a guide, then used the wall and door tools on another layer, snapping to my guide rectangles, to make the floor plan.
All works easily until I try to print. It's a simple document, 140 objects and a few layers (one layer is a grid of squares with various line widths to serve as graph paper). Except for walls and doors, the most complicated thing is a rectangle with white fill. OK, there's about 20 characters of text too.
But when I print, it's a catastrophe. Nothing ever comes out of the printer (HP LJ5M with extra memory) even if I wait 10 hours--the printer just stays busy "processing".
I try printing to PDF, and that goes very quickly and results in a tiny PDF file that displays fine on screen--but it too fails to print within 10 hours.
If I change the dpi to 72 the document prints in less than an hour, but still preposterously slow for its simple nature, and the quality of course is awful.
What works best is to do a screen capture, and print that.
I tried generating PostScript, and it distills rapidly to the PDF, which again views fine on screen but can't print in finite time.
Surely this can't be right--there must be something about printing that is weird with VW that I don't understand.
Can anyone help?
Is there any way to get the vectors and fills out to some other program that can print, like Illustrator?
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