Like Patt, I've found that VCF will only configure (and remember the configuration long enough to print) if I reset the default printer in Windows. I don't have a "roll printer", but have had to generate PDF files formatted for a plotter, and this process has worked for me. (I use CutePDF, which allows me to format pages to a maximum width [plotter length] of 200 inches, which the plotter can print continuously, and to a length that can be handled by the plotter's width.) Rick Van Dusen On 8/21/2015 5:39 AM, Edward A. Feustel via wrote: > Patt, > Don't open Page Setup first. Select print first. Select the printer you > wish to use. Select Properties. On the paper tab, select the paper tab. > On the Paper Options tab and on the Advanced Tab of the Paper Options > tab, select what you want. Close everything and run a print as a test. > Does this work? > Ed > > On 8/20/2015 4:35 PM, Patt Ricketts wrote: >> Ed, >> >> In VCF I open page setup. The paper sizes are 8X13, A4, A5, A6, B5, >> envolopes, letter, legal, etc. All these are sizes for my HP laser >> printer. For some reason VCF is not recognizing my Epson as the >> default printer. I even rebooted to see if that worked. >> >> Patt >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Edward A Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net >> <mailto:efeustel@hughes.net>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 8/20/2015 3:53 PM, Patt Ricketts via wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I can't seem to get VCF to accept my roll printer. In the past >> I had to >> make the printer my default printer and then VCF would accept >> the different >> printing sizes. But now the page setup just accepts regular >> paper. Does >> anyone know how to get it to accept the roll paper? >> >> The chart is 13X38 and I have 13" roll paper. I tried >> exporting to jpg to >> print that way but when it exports it resizeds to 17.333 X 49.333 >> resolution 72. If I scale it down I loose some of the lines. >> >> Patt >> >> So you use "setup printer" to select the roll printer and then >> after doing this much are not offered paper choices? Is the "roll >> printer" a legitimate device? If so, I'd uninstall that device, >> download and install the manufacturer's device drivers (not the >> Microsoft generic ones) and then try again. >> Ed >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Patt Ricketts >> www.jackandpatt.com <http://www.jackandpatt.com> > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

See instructions in link below for saving a chart to PDF: http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index.php?/topic/14684-printing-large-charts-to-pdf/#entry59391 Virginia On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Rick Van Dusen via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Like Patt, I've found that VCF will only configure (and remember the > configuration long enough to print) if I reset the default printer in > Windows. > > I don't have a "roll printer", but have had to generate PDF files > formatted for a plotter, and this process has worked for me. > > (I use CutePDF, which allows me to format pages to a maximum width > [plotter length] of 200 inches, which the plotter can print > continuously, and to a length that can be handled by the plotter's width.) > > Rick Van Dusen > > > > > On 8/21/2015 5:39 AM, Edward A. Feustel via wrote: >> Patt, >> Don't open Page Setup first. Select print first. Select the printer you >> wish to use. Select Properties. On the paper tab, select the paper tab. >> On the Paper Options tab and on the Advanced Tab of the Paper Options >> tab, select what you want. Close everything and run a print as a test. >> Does this work? >> Ed >> >> On 8/20/2015 4:35 PM, Patt Ricketts wrote: >>> Ed, >>> >>> In VCF I open page setup. The paper sizes are 8X13, A4, A5, A6, B5, >>> envolopes, letter, legal, etc. All these are sizes for my HP laser >>> printer. For some reason VCF is not recognizing my Epson as the >>> default printer. I even rebooted to see if that worked. >>> >>> Patt >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Edward A Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net >>> <mailto:efeustel@hughes.net>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8/20/2015 3:53 PM, Patt Ricketts via wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can't seem to get VCF to accept my roll printer. In the past >>> I had to >>> make the printer my default printer and then VCF would accept >>> the different >>> printing sizes. But now the page setup just accepts regular >>> paper. Does >>> anyone know how to get it to accept the roll paper? >>> >>> The chart is 13X38 and I have 13" roll paper. I tried >>> exporting to jpg to >>> print that way but when it exports it resizeds to 17.333 X 49.333 >>> resolution 72. If I scale it down I loose some of the lines. >>> >>> Patt >>> >>> So you use "setup printer" to select the roll printer and then >>> after doing this much are not offered paper choices? Is the "roll >>> printer" a legitimate device? If so, I'd uninstall that device, >>> download and install the manufacturer's device drivers (not the >>> Microsoft generic ones) and then try again. >>> Ed >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Patt Ricketts >>> www.jackandpatt.com <http://www.jackandpatt.com> >> >> The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ >> Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message