"Fit to page" printing with Visio Viewer?

[saltydogmn]

We use Visio Pro 2003 to draw prints for our cable harnesses, and I
have installed the free viewer on all the shop floor machines. However,
if they ever try printing anything, the drawing never fills the page
like the original does; short of wasting 200 dollars on all the users
that never need to edit a drawing, how can this be fixed? Even Acrobat
Reader has "fit to page" available... it's not that hard. Thanks in
advance.

 

[Angus]

Same problem here.

Not only it can't fit to print, but the fonts are unreadable, looks like
print by dot matrix, anyone help?

 

[saltydogmn]

Hey, Angus; sorry to see you're having problems. I really mean that
because, as you can see, I didn't get any help myself. This is
understandable, since there IS no solution, except for two things; one,
buy a standard Visio package for every machine that needs to print
drawings full scale, thereby keeping the electricity on at the Gates
household for a few more days;

or two, install Visio once on a machine with Acrobat full edition, and
save your drawings twice; once as a vsd, and again as a pdf, with the
PDF Distiller. Then you can use Acrobat Reader on any machine,
anywhere, and you can actually print pages full size. It's amazing that
such a huge entity as MSFT can't get this simple functionality right.
One more thing; as soon as Open Office hits 2.0, MSFT is outta here.

 

[David Parker [Visio MVP]]

Unfortunately, I believe that you are right. I think the pdf option is the
best solution at the moment.
In Microsoft's defence (although I believe that they should have a print
option), the Adobe SVG Viewer also misses this functionality.
I have written a wrapper app for the Visio Viewer which adds a printing
capability (http://www.bvisual.net/products/visviewer.htm)