Hi Kara, I use oversize engineering drawings all the time in my Service Manuals. Our drafting group sends our drawings in PDF format. I open the PDF in Illustrator, rotate and size it as necessary, then scale it down so that it is no more than 8.5 inches high (or 5.9 inches wide). Once I've got the drawing rotated and sized, I save it as an EPS with a B&W preview.
In FrameMaker, I have set up a rotated whole page 2 cell table. One cell holds the Table X_X auto number scheme, so I add the title of the drawing to that to get a "Table X-X Title". Into the other cell, I place the EPS file of the engineering drawing. Of course, in FrameMaker it all look horrible because I am only looking at the Preview. And, when I print the page, because the engineering drawing is now scaled to 8.5" high, often I cannot read the drawings. This is especially true of large electrical schematics. But, when I PDF that FrameMaker page, I get a beautiful vector graphic that I can (in a PDF viewer) zoom in on to see even the smallest detail. Our Service Engineers like having the drawings in the PDF like this. They can zoom in a small area and, if they want hardcopy, just print the zoomed area (Print Current View) or they can choose a printer that prints large paper sizes and select "Fit To Printer Margins" and print the page containing the engineering drawing on a page size that's as large as their printer will support. Hope this helps, Richard
