Learn how to use the print to PDF option effectively to submit your work in a PDF format. This article outlines the process, from selecting the right printer driver to adjusting the settings and previewing before printing.
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- The article guides you in using the print to PDF function, starting with selecting a suitable printer driver like Adobe PDF or Microsoft print to PDF, depending on your requirements.
- Setting the correct parameters, such as sheet size and zoom, is crucial before printing. It is advised to save these settings if you frequently use a particular size, like 11 by 17.
- Always preview the print to ensure everything is as per the requirements. After confirming, you can save the file in the designated location.
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So to close out the lesson, what we'll do is we'll print this sheet to PDF, which will be part of our midterm submission. So what we want to do is we're going to use the Print to PDF option. We'll go to File > Print, and we want to make sure we have this set to a PDF printing option.
This driver is Adobe PDF, because we have Adobe Creative Cloud on this computer. But there are also other options that you can find in the resources tab that will allow you to print to PDF. And the key is that you can still print to multiple different sheet types.
So a lot of people like to use Microsoft Print to PDF, and that works fine for sheets up to 11 × 17, but anything larger than that, it doesn't have those loaded. So you'll want to use either one that you already have or one that you can download from the resources tab. So once I'm in here, I'll go in and I'll set it up to print the way we want.
So sometimes we'll have these presets loaded in, and this one does not. We'll go ahead and look for 11 × 17. The next thing that's going to be important is make sure that zoom is set to 100.
And what it does all the time is once you select Zoom, it'll change the placement from Center to Offset, and we actually want that to be Center. With this all set up like that, we can go ahead and click OK. And if you're like, man, I'm printing a lot of 11 × 17, then you can just go ahead and do a Save As, and then you can just call this 11 × 17.
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So anytime you go back and need to print an 11 × 17 sheet, you've got that set there. So I'll click OK. And then we always want to preview, so I'll preview the print to make sure everything looks good.
Looks good to me. We'll go ahead and click print. The dialog appears, and we'll click OK.
Then we'll want to save this to our BIM 201 folder. And we can go ahead and save it. BIM first, last, and then I'll just call it A2.0, because that's the sheet that it is.
And that'll save our PDF for us. And here is the final PDF.
