large plots for resource useage

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EddieA

We have a project that started on July 18,2005. Inorder to check resources
actuals I plot the "Resourse Useage" view with all the task expanded under
each resource. I set it to plot july 18 thru end of year.
The columns are set to bottom tire being the day, middle tier bing month.
The plot size is 30" x 100".
The Plotter is an HP 1050C
The problem is that on October 22 the columns just have a "#" sign and
then the acuals are empty under the remining days. The odd thing is that the
calendar acually gets printed to the desired day it's just that the time is
no longer filled in. It's as though there is some arbitrary number of days
that can be plotted filled in with acuals.
I counted the days and its just 2 days short of 14 weeks (96 days). I could
see 99 days being the limit but 96? makes no sense to me.
However, I can go back in and start the plot on October 22 thru today and
the actuals are printed under the days.
I have an engineering compaany and I have plotted hundreds if not
thousands of large plts from various applications. I have never seen a result
like this.
Any insight on this would be appreciated! I will now bang my head on the
keyboard and see if that helps :)
 
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Mike Glen

Hi Eddie,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

The ### signs ususally indicate that there is insufficient space in the
column to write the data. Try widening the offending column. Otherwise,
please see FAQ Item: 44. Printing Problems

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on:)

Mike Glen
Project MVP
 
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EddieA

Mike,
Thanks but that's not it. I can go boack without any other changes and
make the plot size 30" x 50" (without changing the columns) and it works.
There must be some undocumented plot length for data !?
It's really weird, as the backgound plots out fine. The actual data just
gives a '#' and stops filling in the data. I think its a limitation by
number of columns or plot length. It would seem like it would stop plotting
everything instead of just the actual work data.....
If you think of anything let me know but this is no show stopper.

Thanks
 
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