Hi David.

I want to print out my layout plan so that I can start track laying. Because of the shape (long and thin) I usually work at a scale (1:5 on wide-screen display) that has no vertical scroll bar but a small amount of movement on the horizontal one.

Initially when I printed, the image was printed on portrait paper on two pages. So, question 1 is: can you make the program automatically select the best printer orientation? Other apps that I have do this, usually without any user intervention.

Having orientated the printer, I had a second go but the image still required 2 pages. Thinking that maybe the fact that the whole layout was not displayed at the scale I was using I reduced the scale by one increment (1:6). That still required 2 sheets. Reducing the scale again to 1:8 and reprinting got me a single image but now it was well under the size of the page. So question 2 is: can the program be modified to do a best fit to the printer page?

The only solution at the moment seems to be to export the layout and then print it from a graphics program. But even that requires juggling scales to get the best image. Incidentally, what is teh degree of compression applied, if any, when the image is saved as a .jpg? Mionimal, I hope.

Best wishes from a dreach Skye,
Chris.

Good morning David. Thank you for responding to my message.


Good question. Yes, the table was defined before I even started on the plan. So no problem there. BTW, I use a virtual printer (FinePrint) most of the time in order to save paper so no paper/ink was wasted. (FP is an excellent app and can save whole lot of paper by printing, say, two pages on a single sheet of paper - i.e. at 0.707 magnification. End of plug!)

Once again, best wishes,
Chris.

Hi Chris,

When I try to print your layout, a scale of 1:6 results in two pages. The plan is just slightly too large to fit on one page (A4).
Indeed, when scaling down to first possible option, 1:8, it becomes a bit smallish. And there is nothing in between.
The scale you set with AnyRail is the real print scale, so if you set it 1:10, 10 inches in your plan will be 1 inch in the print out.

AnyRail will simply take a scale, and retrieves the size of the paper from the printer. From that, it decides how many pages are required. AnyRail does not know anything about A4/Letter, it just uses the width and height as reported by the printer.

However, we could try to add a feature to 'scale to fit'. In your case the resulting print would be 1:6.2326742842 or something like that.

David.

Concerning the track library, you know that you can 'tear it off', to turn it into a floating window?
Just pick it up by the dotted line on the left and drag it where you want.

David.