evtonic3 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I have 3 tabloid size art boards that I need to print on the fly, why do I get a lot of extra pages when I set up the printing dialog box in Mac OS El Capitan? I see the artboards in the scrolling preview on there but see also empty pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFisher Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Hi evtonic3Would it be possible to provide a copy of the file you're working with so I can take a look at this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Well, could it be a mismatch between the artboard size and the actual paper size of the printer that isn’t corrected by selecting Scale to Fit? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 This is what the print dialogue shows me, it want to move items off-center, really obvious in the second page, then I get a blank page at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 If your artboards are larger than the printable area for your printer & you use the "Actual size" option in the print dialog, that is what you will get. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evtonic3 Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 So I need to undersize my artboards to prevent this? That's no good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 So I need to undersize my artboards to prevent this? That's no good. No software can alter the fact that it is impossible to print anything at its actual size on a page smaller than that size, so you will have to do something to work around that fact. From your thumbnails, it looks like you could easily narrow each artboard's width to tabloid size & slightly rearrange their contents to appear more centered on the page, but I don't know how important centering is for your project, so that may not even be necessary. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 11, 2016 Staff Share Posted March 11, 2016 Hi evtonic3, I don't have a printer here to test this so i can't help much other than suggest to print one artboard at a time instead of the whole document at once. You should get them centred as you want judging from your preview of the first page. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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