Printing a large image

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Print a large image on a small printer

If you have an A4-format (210x297 mm) printer and a large image (drawing) 825x594 mm.

Open image file.
Press Print Preview button on the toolbar or click [File > Print Preview], after a short while, the Print Preview dialog should appear.
In Device configuration section choose a printer
In Paper size and paper units section choose
oPaper size (for example A4 - 210x297 mm)
oUnits value millimeters or inches (for example mm)
In Paper orientation section choose Landscape or Portrait paper orientation (for example Portrait)
Select Drawing settings tab
In Format size section
ochoose predefined format A1 (840, 594)
oEnter the following values
Left 0
Top 0
Width 825, press the Enter button on your keyboard, value in the Height edit box will be set automatically
In Paper offset section you can choose the size of the printed zone on a paper sheet.  This is made for easy combining the sheets after printing superimposing their friend on friend. Default is 1 mm on every side of the page is for superimposing, for example enter the following values
oLeft 5
oTop 5
oRight 5
oBottom 5
Press Print button.

Note: if Show Lineweight button on the toolbar is pressed then every line of the drawing gets weight according to Width of zero-width lines option.

Advice: use Black-White mode if you use Black-White printer and want to have all the lines with the same width and intensity.