# Print to scale produces wrong printout and causes problems in view

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**Category:** SketchUp\
**Tags:** bug, export\
**Created:** [November 21, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/print-to-scale-produces-wrong-printout-and-causes-problems-in-view/17968 "2015-11-21T18:43:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![guyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@guyer](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/guyer)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/print-to-scale-produces-wrong-printout-and-causes-problems-in-view/17968/15 "2015-11-22T02:04:57Z")

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> [@Anssi](#):
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> I couldn’t see if “Use model extents” was checked or not in your video. SketchUp has an old, old bug where printing small objects (about 1 feet across) to full scale results in the printout spreading across multiple pages if the “Use model extents” box is checked. The workaround is to either scale up your model by 10, for instance, and then print to 1:10 scale, or, to uncheck the box and resize your Sketchup window so that the items to be printed fill it. The bug dates back to as far as I can remember (started using SU at version 3).
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> Anssi

Thanks for the suggestion, Anssi. I can’t find any sign of a “Use model extents” checkbox on the Mac version of SketchUp. In the course of searching for it, though, I came across [this thread](http://forums.sketchup.com/t/trying-to-print-1-1-using-parallel-project-and-camera-view-from-top-not-working/618) that I didn’t find earlier. Seems to be a very similar situation to mine experienced by at least a couple of people.

Unfortunately, scaling up and printing at 1:10 scale doesn’t help. Neither does unchecking “Vector Printing”; in fact, the printout comes out worse than before with a bad aspect ratio and the model view is similarly distorted afterwards

**but**

if I uncheck “Vector Printing” and Save to PDF, then recheck “Vector Printing” and Save to PDF _again_, then the scale and aspect ratio appear to be good in the PDF. The screen display is still distorted, though, and the weird zooming behavior remains.

Still, it’s some kind of workaround that doesn’t involve exporting to an ancient version (which had its own problems).

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