I use Sketchup pro 2015 for construction document drafting and Layout for labeling, dimensions and markup. I commonly export these drawings from Layout in PDF format to then share with clients and to send to my printing company for larger format prints. I just recently realized that when I export a…

[image] DaveR: Usually the user has “Fit” selected instead of “Actual size”. For some obscure reason “Fit” is the default Adobe Acrobat print setting. Note that even if the original page size is the same as the paper in your printer, this setting will shrink it to fit within the printing marg…

[image] Anssi: For some obscure reason “Fit” is the default Adobe Acrobat print setting. I wonder if that “default” can be changed by the user. When I made that screenshot I just opened Reader and hit Print. Actual Size was already selected.

Acrobat remembers the last used setting. It’s just that many people print things mainly containing text, and might not notice at all the slight reduction in size. Anssi

I am not speaking of using Adobe to “print” or create a pdf. My problem occurs when exporting a pdf using Layout and then printing

To get a drawing from a PDF file to paper, you have to use Acrobat, Adobe reader or some other PDF viewer to view and print it. The LayOut PDF exporter has no scaling options and it always exports full pages to full scale. So the aberration is happening elsewhere. Either your SketchUp views on your…

I would be glad to share a drawing here, tell me how

[image] ncskyguy: I would be glad to share a drawing here, tell me how Upload the LayOut file. click on the 7th button from the left in the row above the message window.

The first document I attempted to upload was too large. Here is a simple rectangle 48’x32’. I have the same result when I export as PDF, it is not to scale. print test2.layout (109.9 KB)

print test revised.layout (210.9 KB) Try this. You need to set up the camera in SketchUp to Parallel Projection and make sure the viewports aren’t modified from the original scenes. I added a 6 in. long line drawn in LO for reference.

Dave, First off thank you for your help thus far. My views are set to Parallel projection. I did the same with the 6" line in LO. the drawing should export 1/8"=1’ scale meaning the 6" line should exactly the math the 48’ side of rectangle. I experimented and printed this through NITRO PDF tria…

Layout PDF Export is resizing drawing and changing scale

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Barbara October 14, 2016, 2:51pm 22

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Layout PDF Export is resizing drawing and changing scale

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