How to Print House Plans To Scale

To Print a House Plan PDF to Scale:

  • Open and Save the PDF File
  • Click File; Print. A Print Box will open.
  • Choose the appropriate printer name.
    • Click Properties
    • Change the page size to 11x17
    • Change the output size to 11x17
    • Click ok (the view in the print box should now look normal)
  • Under the Page Handling section, be sure that:
    • the Page Scaling is None
    • the Auto-Rotate and Center boxes are checked
    • Choose paper source by PDF page size should be unchecked
  • Click ok