Drawing scales save you the trouble of doing the math, and allow you to draw real-world objects in real-world units. I’ll just note that you can specify scales for your Visio drawing, such as 1” = 1’-0” or 1:10 or 25:1. The Drawing Scale tab is also important but we’ll stay out of there for now. The second tab, Page Size, is more concerned with the virtual paper that you see in your Visio drawing window.īy specifying the size and orientation of the “desired” paper, you tell Visio how to draw the paper on the screen.

You can also choose to print gridlines, which is kind of nice! Page Size Tab You can see that there are orientation options, as well as a couple of zoom settings. Print Setup is mostly concerned with the paper that is inside of the printer: The first two are the most important for printing. Once you’re in Page Setup, you’ll notice a whole slew of tabs. I’ll go out on a limb and say that I like this ribbon tab! It’s got what you need in one, easy to use place, and it beats digging around in the backstage area for print options. In Visio 2010, the Print Preview uses the ribbon UI, which looks like this: In Visio 2010, you can get there by right-clicking any page tab at the bottom of the drawing window:Īnother nice way to get there is from the parallel world of Print Preview.

The first place to start is the Page Setup dialog. What follows is a quick tour of Visio’s printing-related dialog boxes, along with a few words on how to find them, and (maybe) what they’re good for! Have a look around. It also makes an exhaustive discussion of all printing features and possibilities extremely awkward, long-winded, and near-impossible. The bad news is that at first glance, it looks horribly confusing. Likewise for tiling a large drawing across several small sheets of printer paper. And there is more than one way to print a large drawing on a small piece of paper. There is more than one path to print a small drawing on a large sheet of paper. Or you can scale the drawing at print time by choosing “print zoom to 25%.” You can choose to scale a drawing by setting the actual drawing scale, like 1:10. What’s great about printing in Visio is that there are many pathways to get where you are going. I’ve been digging through the various options, and I am surprised to see how many different dialogs control aspects of printing in Visio.

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