Print direction to large format plotters

[Peter2]

Hi

a challenging topic:

For a client I'm fighting with many large format PDFs which should be printed to large format plotters.

Example:
- I have a PDF with 300 * 1500 mm page size
- The printed area is 270 * 900 mm and begins 20 mm from the left corner
- The client uses PDF Viewer 2.5 / 54 (?? two or three years old)

Mission:
- Print the PDF to HP-plotter with a minimum of clicks, using the cut-at-the-end-plot feature of the plotter (to avoid many different page settings for many different PDFs).
- BUT keep the white space (20 mm) on the left side of the PDF (green area at screenshot): print it to paper, don't cut it

Problem:
- trying all the feature of "rotate and centre and trim and fit" of PDF Viewer and HP-plotter-device I had no success because cropping "before" and "behind" of the print-area depends on how the plan it send to the plotter.
- Now the plotter always begins with the right side of the PDF; the paper comes out of the plotter in the direction drawn at the screenshot.



Question:
- Is there a way to rotate the print direction through 180° so that the left ("green") area is send to the plotter at the beginning?

Peter

EDIT: Screenshot added.

[Patrick-Tracker Supp]

Hello Peter,

In later builds of the Editor, you will see a "page setup". From there you can choose from all paper sizes. Furthermore, you can add different paper sizes by following the steps in this KB:

https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowled ... int-Driver

I hope this helps!

[Peter2]

(Sorry for my maybe confusing English; that's a rather specialized question for the devs)

Hi Patrick

sorry - maybe my screenshot is confusing because there is "PDF-Xchange" the current printer (that's a simple compromise because I have no real HP-Plotter on this machine).

The question is:
How to modify the print output from PDFViewer to a plotter in the way that the data-stream creates a 180° rotated output?

Peter

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Peter,

We'll need to check with the Dev. Team for this, but I don't believe that this is possible with the End User app, but may be possible programmatically.

I'll let you know as soon as I do.

Cheers,

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Peter,

Silly me - this can actually done by using the Rotate View option in either the Viewer or the Editor. That way, you don't need to do anything as complex as capturing the output stream.

Cheers,

[Peter2]

Hi

rotating the view rotates the content on the paper, but prints the great white area at first ...

I thank you for your help, but I will close this thread here. This is a really special, nearly "private" challenge and it should not waste your time.

Thanks

Peter

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi Peter,

Just a suggestion - have you tried to "crop" the page before printing it - this way the white space will not be present at all - and the ploter will just print the actual length of the page that has contents on it and then cut the paper.

Alternatively - try rotating the page (using Document -> Rotate Pages) - so that the content with the green area is at the top (or bottom) of the page - so that it is fed first to the plotter.

Best,
Stefan
Tracker

[Peter2]

Stefan

yes, I used "crop white space" too, but this
a) removes also the white space I need on the left side (green area above)
b) needs some clicks more
so it is not the best-way I'm looking for.

Rotating to 180° caused problems (see above), and the combination of

Code: Select all

"rotate the view 
+/- rotate the print dialogue 
+/- rotate options inside plotter-device 
+/- rotating of plotter-controller"

is a stuff that nobody really understands. The last combination it not tried yet is rotating +/- 90° and watch what the "following rotates" will do.

But as said above - it is a really single-user problem.

Peter

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi Peter,

Yes "Remove white space" will remove the one you want to keep as well, but a manual Crop might help.
As for the rotation options - I am sure there will be a combination that will produce the desired result.

As you said - we will consider this closed now.

Regards,
Stefan