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Enterprise Architect => Bugs and Issues => Topic started by: Guy Manning on October 18, 2018, 12:48:52 am

Title: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Guy Manning on October 18, 2018, 12:48:52 am: We have been working on a large enterprise logical data model in EA v14 and want to print the thing out and mount it on a wall so the wider business can review it
What is the best way of doing this? We have tried exporting into PDF etc. but have found in some cases, attributes have been missed off and it looks a bit fuzzy
Has anyone done a successful print out of a large model?
Title: Re: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Proagile on October 18, 2018, 03:04:05 am: Hi,
Maybe saving the diagram as image and then print it. From Publish | image | Save as image

Hope this can help you!
Title: Re: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Glassboy on October 18, 2018, 07:25:31 am: Quote from: Guy Manning on October 18, 2018, 12:48:52 am
We have been working on a large enterprise logical data model in EA v14 and want to print the thing out and mount it on a wall so the wider business can review it
What is the best way of doing this? We have tried exporting into PDF etc. but have found in some cases, attributes have been missed off and it looks a bit fuzzy
Has anyone done a successful print out of a large model?

This isn't really an EA problem, it's a matter of how large a printer/plotter you have access to. If you're using a PDF as an intermediary you need to set the page size of the PDF to the size of paper you are going to print to.

For example if you are going to go to a printery and have them print you an A1, make sure that you're creating your PDF as an A1 page size, not trying to scale up an A4 page size to A1.
Title: Re: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Sunshine on October 18, 2018, 08:23:38 am: The other approach to printing large diagrams I've seen when people only have an A4 or A3 max size printer is to print out un-scaled and sellotape all the pieces together.
OR
Find a local print shop with an A0 Plotter and get them to print it.
Title: Re: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Guy Manning on October 18, 2018, 06:26:35 pm: Not is NOT an EA issue, but I wanted to see how others had done it
Thanks for the tips...A1 and a trip to the local printer seems the best
Title: Re: Printing out a big data model
Post by: Glassboy on October 19, 2018, 07:52:13 am: Quote from: Guy Manning on October 18, 2018, 06:26:35 pm
Not is NOT an EA issue, but I wanted to see how others had done it
Thanks for the tips...A1 and a trip to the local printer seems the best

You have to think of a PDF as basically being the postscript that would be sent to a printer. It may contain a vector image scaled to fit on an A4 page, but if tell the printer subsystem to scale it to a larger form size that image will be rastered. You want the printer getting the vector image.