Printing PDF's

[Atchison]

When I export to PDF the resultant drawing has shrunk by about 4% on the page.

The problem is not in the printing of the PDF - the shrinkage occurs in the exporting of the drawing from VW to the PDF.

Is there a way to rectify this?

[Dieter @ DWorks]

If the problem is not when printing the pdf, then your paper format isn't defined like it should be. It can be that your format is 4% bigger than you want. Make sure that you do not take a printer with a printing margin. You are on pc, so it's best to take the xps 'printer' and set the page to what you want. It will be withouth margins and you'll have and see the real page format instead of the printable area. Then when exporting to pdf, make sure that you select the option to export the whole area of the page.

[Atchison]

Sorry - not sure what you mean.

When I print a page straight to my printer the printed page scales perfectly. So I don't want to change any settings re margins, borders etc.

When I select 'Export PDF' I'm not given any options about borders or margins.

[Miguel Barrera]

You do not have to change your existing printer settings. What Dieter means is to add a virtual printer that creates pdf files from any application. I use the free CutePDF Writer which shows as another printer in the list. When you are ready to export, select the pdf writer in the printer list and select the size that you need to print/export. The sheet will show in vectorworks to the full extent without any margins. Then when printing the exported pdf file, select "None" or "Actual Size" on the scaling option, which will print at the exact scale.

[Atchison]

Thanks Miguel. I have been creating PDF's with PDFCreator and your advice has fixed the problem.