Printing large diagrams

[Louis_Wu]

Hi

I'd like to know if there's a way of exporting large EA diagrams as a printable image.

I'm running EA 3.51, and I have a large database diagram in it (all the tables, PK's FK's etc) We want to get a big printout to stick on the wall, so all the developers can doodle on it.  

I'd like to be able to export the image as a file we can run over the road to the local printers, so they can put it on a few sheets of A1 (rather than the "42 sheets of A3 and stick them together ourselves" method we used last release).

If I use the "Save diagram image to file" function, I either get unreadable blobs (if zoomed out) or a chopped image (if zoomed in so the text is readable)

Any tips or workarounds for this?

Many thanks in advance

Louis

[Andreas_G]

Hi Louis,

I think it should be possible to install the printerdriver or our printer-service over the road. Print the Diagrams to file. Copy this file to disk. Run over the road to the local printers.

And last but not least send the file directly to the printer.

Is this a possible way?  

[carlclarke]

You could try saving the diagram as a file (Diagram mewu -> Save Image to File, try file type .WMF or .EMF for best results) and insert the diagram in a wordprocessor document configured for the printer over the road.

Check the quality of the stretched diagram though, these files should ideally contain vector graphics (that will maintain reasonable quality when enlarged) but it does depend on how the graphical (GDI) part of EA is written.

[Louis_Wu]

Thanks Guys - looks like .WMF is a promising way to go

Cheers!