Printing portrait work onto 2 landscape A4 pages

Does it work if you export to PDF and then use Adobe Reader to print as a workaround?

Thank you for response - I am unfamiliar with exporting to PDF. I have Adobe Reader. I clicked on 'Export Bitmap' in Inkscape and entered height and width in inches of the size required but am unable to transfer to Adobe Reader. due to limited knowledge,

Sorry for wrong choice of words ;-)

Open 'File > Save as…' file dialog, choose the filetype 'Portable Document Format (*.pdf)' (usually a popup list in the lower right part of the dialog) and save the document as 'your_filename.pdf'. Then open the resulting PDF document in Adobe Reader and try to 'tile print' from there.

More information about exporting to other filetypes:
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html#File-Export-Other>

Thank you suv and for the Inkscape Manual references to exporting other file types. I successfully transferred the design to Adobe but when I came to print, it would only print in portrait mode despite choosing landscape as the requirement. Certainly it would work if the landscape feature would 'obey' the command as I could print as in Inkscape, import another file of the same design having rotated 180 degrees in Inkscape to give the two required halves. Any other advice gratefully received.

I assume that when you say rotate the drawing 90 degrees and adjust the page settings this will merely print the whole drawing on one sheet of A4. The object is to produce a finished project measuring 14" x 11" formed by 2 conjoined A4 landscaped sheets and the design is then drawn onto A3 cartridge paper from the printed image with backing light source. From the opening lines of the first part of your message, whilst the reference to the next 'prerelease build of 0.47 means that at present I would not be able to achieve the transfer of a portrait image across 2 A4 pages?

OK - that sorted the problem I was having with printing in Adobe. I found that by unclicking 'rotate' in the page setting, the top half of the image could be printed in landscape, and by then importing the drawing after rotating 180 degrees, the second half could be printed, again in Landscape format. However, again the small section joining the two halves was missing and I suspect I have made a wrong move in Inkscape whilst designing and I will re-do the work to see if that resolves the issue.

You have, despite this possibility given me some much valued info and I thank you for your helpfulness and patience. Best wishes,

Trevor

Thanks ~suv, that solved my question.

Was just about to try another answer, but you were faster ;-)

here's it anyway:

I meant

1) rotate 90°
2) adjust page size to A3 portrait
3) center the rotated drawing on the page as needed
3) export to PDF (as A3)
4) print from Adobe Reader or other win32 software that allows tiled printing

but from testing I realize that saving as PDF keeps the landscape orientation, even with Inkscape 0.46, so the paper orientation does not seem to be the issue after all. Looks more like the printer margins cut off the middle part of your design and you are limited to A4 because your printer doesn't support A3?

But I'm no longer sure I understand correctly what your goal is, especially your initial question "is there a way of adjustment to allow the whole of the drawing to come together in the 14 inch parameter".

Thanks for additional info suv.

I went back over all the steps I had made in arriving at the final drawing and realised that when I rotated the drawing 180 degrees to bring the bottom half to the top in landscape to produce the final drawing of 14" x 11", I had omitted one simple step - I had not created a rectangle around the whole drawing in the Inkscape window. Having done that the two halves joined perfectly. So, a big gaffe on my part, but thank you for your time and patience in this matter and at least you have given me a little more computing experience with your import on exporting.

Best wishes,
Trevor

--- On Wed, 12/8/09, ~suv <email address hidden> wrote:

From: ~suv <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #79817]: Printing portrait work onto 2 landscape A4 pages
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009, 11:21 PM

Your question #79817 on Inkscape changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/79817

~suv posted a new comment:
Was just about to try another answer, but you were faster ;-)

here's it anyway:

I meant

1) rotate 90°
2) adjust page size to A3 portrait
3) center the rotated drawing on the page as needed
3) export to PDF (as A3)
4) print from Adobe Reader or other win32 software that allows tiled printing

but from testing I realize that saving as PDF keeps the landscape
orientation, even with Inkscape 0.46, so the paper orientation does not
seem to be the issue after all. Looks more like the printer margins cut
off the middle part of your design and you are limited to A4 because
your printer doesn't support A3?

But I'm no longer sure I understand correctly what your goal is,
especially your initial question "is there a way of adjustment to allow
the whole of the drawing to come together in the 14 inch parameter".

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