Printing, PDFs, Formats and Sizes

Printing

You can print a visualization (model, diagram, or presentation) from the Visual Designer or Viewer by using the browser's printer (CTRL-P).

The browser's printer will look at the page format configured in the SVG data. The page format you have used, you can check in the page panel in the Inspector.

If you have created a visualization at A0 size, you can print it at A0 size but also at A4 or vice versa. But for that, your printer driver needs to have the option of scale to fit the printer size. In Google Chrome, this option is often not available. In that case, save the visualization as a PDF and print it from your PDF viewer.

Printing in the Visual Designer

First, select a visualization to print.

If you want to print your visualization at its actual size, select zoom 100% in the player bar. If you want to print only a portion, you can zoom in.

Click on Print in the mid-top header to get a printer-friendly version of your visualization.

Now press CTRL-P.

Printing in the Viewer

First, select a visualization to print.

If you want to print your visualization at its actual size, select zoom 100% in the player bar. If you want to print only a portion, you can zoom in.

Click on Print in the mid-top header to get a printer-friendly version of your visualization.

Now press CTRL-P.

Save as PDF

You can save a visualization from the Visual Designer or Viewer by using the browser's printer (CTRL-P) and save it as PDF.

Formats

In the Visual Designer, you can create a visualization of any size.

We have predefined the following sizes for you: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and A6.

If you want a different size, you can enter the width and height in mm in the page panel of the Inspector.

Is Printing Size of Shapes incorrect?

If the size of your shapes is incorrect in the print view, this is because your page size is not configured correctly. To solve this problem, change the size of your Page back and forth in the Inspector and save your model, view, or visualization.

Millimeters versus Pixels

On Dragon1, we use 2.6 as a multiplier to convert millimeters into pixels.

So 10 mm is 26 pixels.

Page Sizes

The ISO Sizes for standard format are:

  • A0 - 1189mm x 841mm
  • A1 - 841mm x 594mm
  • A2 - 594mm x 420mm
  • A3 - 420mm x 297mm
  • A4 - 297mm x 210mm
  • A5 - 210mm x 148 mm
  • A6 - 148mm x 105 mm

Unreadable text

Suppose in the Viewer or Visual Designer, your text inside colored objects is white, but when you print it or save it as a PDF, the text gets an unreadable color.

Then you might try to check the checkbox Background Graphics. Sometimes, this will turn your text white again.