Dotted lines in VCF not printing

[Ken.Clarke2@btinternet.com 0]

I am using TMG v.8 in Windows Vista and printing to a Canon Pixma IP4600 printer.

 

I can set up charts in VCF with some lines solid and some dotted. Print preview shows the correct result. When output goes to my printer I can also ask for a preview and this also shows the dotted lines correctly. But when I print I just get solid lines. Do others get this problem. Is there a fix and if this is an inherent problem with VCF is it going to be fixed.

 

This has been a problem for several years and I was hoping that with the release of TMG8 it would have been dealt with.

[Mike Talbot 0]

I am using TMG v.8 in Windows Vista and printing to a Canon Pixma IP4600 printer.

 

I can set up charts in VCF with some lines solid and some dotted. Print preview shows the correct result. When output goes to my printer I can also ask for a preview and this also shows the dotted lines correctly. But when I print I just get solid lines. Do others get this problem. Is there a fix and if this is an inherent problem with VCF is it going to be fixed.

 

This has been a problem for several years and I was hoping that with the release of TMG8 it would have been dealt with.

 

Ditto.

 

A work-around that works for me (TMG7/XP):

 

Install the Cute PDF Writer program as a printer. Use it to print your chart that contains dotted lines to a file from VCF. Print the chart PDF file to a printer using Adobe Reader. Dotted lines are on your hard-copy. Magic, in one easy extra step.

 

Another advantage of VCF charts in PDF file format is that you can magnify your chart on the screen on in print using Adobe.

 

Good luck,

[Ken.Clarke2@btinternet.com 0]

Thanks Mike for your reply. I have the full version of Adobe Acrobat on my machine and am therefore able to "print" to it. I have just tried printing the VCF chart to it and again the dotted lines do not appear! I will have a look at "Cute PDF Writer" as you suggest, however, I hope the developers will deal with the issue in VCF now that version 8 of TMG has been launched.

 

Ken

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

The dotted lines are solid for me with CutePDF and also PDF995. For a one-page chart - if your printer does not handle dotted lines - you can export as a .jpg and print that. It looks pretty good on my Epson Deskjet.

 

 

Virginia