Printing

Posters! Poster-Tiled Printing Over Multiple Printed Pages

Printed drawings come in all shapes and sizes, but you are limited by the size of paper in your printer. Artboard drawings can be larger or smaller than the physical paper size that you have in your printer. If the drawing is larger, Artboard can automatically tile the drawing over multiple printed sheets enabling you to print large posters, or 'shrink to fit' on a single page. If you're feeling crafty, tiled sheets can be pieced together manually after printing. Choose "Crop Marks" from the Artboard print options to show the seams between printed sheets.

For best results, consider your purpose and what size you want during drawing setup. For easy setup, use an appropriately sized blank page template in Artboard by choosing File > New From Template. Blank templates are formatted for common paper sizes. If you need a different sized layout, change settings by choosing File > Drawing Setup in the main menu.

Page Setup

Choose File > Page Setup… from the main menu to define your printer paper size and page orientation.

Shrink to Fit to a Single Page for Printing

When tiling large artwork isn't desired, you can change settings so a drawing will shrink to fit on a single page. Printing options include a simple checkbox for scaling the entire drawing to a single page by choosing File > Print > from the main menu, then checking Fit to a single page in the Artboard options.

When fitting to a single page, all objects including text will be shrunk to fit.

Alternatively, your drawing can be printed to PDF format. PDF format is the only export option that exports vector graphics that are fully scalable. Common PDF viewers provide various shrink to fit page printing options.

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