This is the reason I always recommend to people to use a scale bar rather than a specific numeric scale, you are safe no matter what the printer (or people) do to your masterpiece.
Ian On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 15:55, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Flore, > > Are you absolutely sure that the printer is not scaling during the > printing? Many printers "autoscale" and shrink the content, because they > think that there is content right to the edge (even if it is just > white-space). In such case, you can often force the printer to turn off > auto-scaling through some printer setting (e.g. print at 100%). > > Another source of confusion regarding printing at scale is the coordinate > system. What coordinate system is your data in and what coordinate system > are you using in your project? Anything lat/lon should be converted into a > projected coordinate system, before trying to print at scale. > > If you double checked that and can confirm that it is not the fault of > some printer setting, than you should file an issue report at > https://issues.qgis.org/ and we can find a developer to look at the > issue. Best, if you could provide a sample data and project to reproduce > the issue. > > Greetings, > > Andreas > > > On 2018-10-15 16:36, Flore Cotton wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with printing a map on the right scale (Qgis2.18.24). > > If I put the map in the print composer on an A4 format, I change the scale > (for example 1000), and I print the pdf, it is printed on the right scale. > (I recalculated it, by measuring a specific distance in qgis and then on > the pdf). > > Now, our map is very detailled and we need those details in good quality. > So we need to print the map on format A0, to have the best quality. If I do > the same as before (change scale, print on pdf), the scale isn't right on > the pdf. Instead of scale 1/1000, I get some scale in my recalculation. > > Do you know what the problem is, or what did I do wrong? > > Thank you, > > Flore > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Ian Turton
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