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Subject:Print SQL Server database diagram on one sheet From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:56:15 -0400
Folks,
We have a request from a customer to send a PDF of our entire SQL Server database diagram on one large page. The customer wants to print it on a large plotter rather than taping a bunch of letter-size pages together.
What I have tried is this:
I used the Adobe installer to create a new PostScript printer on FILE:.
I hand-edited the Adist5.ppd to add a new paper size that, for convenience, I called E2. The size is large enough to accommodate the drawing.
I specified E2 as the default size for the new printer and made the new printer the default on the machine where this was done.
I opened SQL Server Enterprise Manager and clicked the Print button for the diagram.
When the Print dialog opened, I selected the Distiller printer, clicked Properties, and selected E2 paper. (This should have been the default selection, but of course Letter was the default.)
When I did this, the blue page break lines in the diagram disappeared, suggesting that Enterprise Manager got the message about the paper size.
I clicked OK to print the diagram to a PS file.
When I subsequently distilled the PS file, the PDF was 20 letter-size pages again.
Anyone?
Thanks,
Dick
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