figures in plan window not printing

Anonymous · ‎2009-01-29

I''m trying to print a plan which has had a furniture layout sketch overlayed. The layout is in pdf and jpg format and i've tried placing it with both the drawing tool and figure tool respectively.
All looks fine on screen (see attached image), but when i try printing (from either plan window or layout book) the sketch does not print.
Any suggestions why this is occuring and advice to rectify it would be appreciated.

Erika Epstein · ‎2009-01-29

You will need to create a pdf of what you show and print from that.

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Anonymous · ‎2009-01-29

I'm getting the same result printing to pdf as to printer - other archicad elements but not figures. If i bring the figure to the front so that it covers the other elements, i get a (generally) blank print; so i guess the figure is printing, but as a solid block of [white] colour.

David Maudlin · ‎2009-01-29

kombibob:

Have you tried checking the "Transparent" option in the Figure Settings dialog box?

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Anonymous · ‎2009-01-30

I have managed to get the figures to print correctly by reducing the file size of the image being imported. I tried this after finding this post in the ArchicadWiki http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/Drawings%20with%20images%20do%20not%20print
Although the original file was just <1Mb (937kb), reducing the image size in image editor to around 250kb and reimporting seemed to fix the problem.
Erika/David, thanks for your responses.

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