Posted by Ken McGuire on December 21, 1999 at 07:49:05:I would like to be able to print the floor plan of my project such that the printout is to a specific scale. ie. 1"=10' This is so I can take printouts to my construction site and scale measurements off the prints. It seems each time I print out a view, its scale is different. I've tried manually entering the scale in the scale window, but when I enter a number (like 1000) DW adjusts it to something close (like 999 or 1002, each time seems different.
Other less capable 3D design programs can print out scaled drawings, I would hope that DW can too and I just haven't figured it out yet.
I was supprised to learn that DW for Windows can use formats other than PICT for backgrounds. When one looks at the pull down menu for importing backgrounds, only PICT is listed, yet when I choose all file types, I can import .jpg, .bmp, .gif etc. This isn't clear in the documentation, and it is a great feature people should be aware of.