Sometimes, instead of printing what you see on your screen and fit on a sheet of paper, you may need to print your floor plan drawing to a precise architectural scale.
The scale is the number of feet/inches or meters that one inch on your computer monitor or your printer represents in the “real world”. If you say, “I want 1 inch on my computer monitor or printer to translate into 10 feet”, you are basically describing the precise scale that you want for drawing to appear on your monitor/printer. You actually can, in fact, zoom to a precise scale, if you want to.
ScalePrint is a simple utility for printing picture files to a specified scale or size. It is included free with all RailDriver® Cyclopedias to print the useful and detailed high-resolution pictures contained on the CDs. It was originally designed for model railroading, but can print any. When you attempt to print the email message, you notice the image is cropped. Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 do not offer a Shrink to Fit option, as in earlier versions. More information. In earlier versions of Outlook, Windows Internet Explorer is used for reading email messages. Internet Explorer has the Shrink To Fit print option.
If you adjusted the scale of your drawing so that “one inch on the screen represents 10 feet” and hit the Print button, then you can be assured that one inch on your paper would represent exactly 10 feet in the “real world”.
So, you will first want to print the test page. To print a test page, click the Test print button and wait for your printer to print the test page. The test page will have some instructions on it. It will also have a line that is approximately one inch long drawn on it. Measure the actual distance of the line with the ruler. If the line is less than an inch, you will want to increase the “dots per inch” in the Printer DPI box.
If the line is actually greater than an inch, then you will want to decrease the “dots per inch” in the Printer DPI box. For example, let us say that the line was actually only half an inch. In that case, we would probably want to double the size of the “dots per inch” in the Printer DPI box. After a few test pages, you should be able to exactly match up the line drawn on the test page with one inch on you ruler. You are now ready to print your drawing to scale. Again, just type in the precise scale for your drawing, and hit the Print button.
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Summary
Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or in Microsoft Outlook 2010, you open an email message that contains a large inline graphic or picture. When you attempt to print the email message, you notice the image is cropped. Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 do not offer a Shrink to Fit option, as in earlier versions.
More information
In earlier versions of Outlook, Windows Internet Explorer is used for reading email messages. Internet Explorer has the Shrink To Fit print option.
Because multiple rendering engines are used in earlier versions of Outlook, email messages sometimes display differently between the sender and the recipient.
Internet Explorer was not intended to be used an editing tool. Therefore, Microsoft decided to use Microsoft Word to read and to author content in Outlook. Outlook 2010 uses Word 2010 for both the rendering engine and the composition engine. Similarly, Outlook 2007 uses Word 2007 for both rendering and composition. This symmetry provides a uniform experience between the sender and the recipient. Additionally, the Word 2010 and Word 2007 rendering engines represent improvements over the rendering engines in earlier versions of Word. These improvements include improved support for HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) standards.
Microsoft Word does not have a Shrink to Fit print option. Therefore, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 do not have the Shrink to Fit functionality that is available in earlier Outlook versions.
Use one of the following workarounds to print the full image:
- Open the email message in Outlook, select the Actions button, and then select Edit Message. Resize the large image before you print it.
- Copy the contents of the email message to a new Microsoft Word document and resize the image in Word.
- Request the sender to send you the picture or graphic as an attachment. Open the file using a program that supports resizing or shrinking the image.
- Right-click on the large image and save it to disk. Open the file using a program that supports resizing or shrinking the image.