I faced problems with the Altium design program. I need to print a PCB schematics to PDF, but when I do it, the dimensions does not match with real device dimensions. The difference on the printed paper between scheme last pad and device last pin is 5 mm. I checked all the settings were good, I used metric dimensions, grid spacing 2.54 mm and the scale was 1.00. In the program, pads dimensions are good and placed perfectly in the right place, but when I printing scheme to PDF file, it occurs dimensional problems. Have someone ever faced this problem?
Electrical – Altium design printing to pdf
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Best Answer
I have had this problem a number of times. I discovered that the most reliable method for me was to print through the "Preview" panel within the OutJob. Steps are below:
Up to this point I'm guessing you probably already did all this, but here's the difference:
Printing straight from the OutJob never seems to work for me and I get exactly what you did (a print that doesn't match the PCB dimensions). Printing through the preview pane, however, does seem to do the trick.