ArcView Layout Printing Problems

If anyone has experienced Arcview layouts with images being truncated when plotted, ESRI has offered a quick fix that seems to work:  add a neatline to your layout.

On a plot of soil lines atop USGS quad images, the layout was exported to a postscript file, the postscript was arcpressed, and then the .out file was sent to an HP755 plotter.  The plot had no neatline around the entire composition and came off the HP cut off about 3/4 the way down.  Then a neatline was added just inside the margin of the layout, the layout was run through the same process, and the final plot contained everything saw on screen (the entire layout).

This also brings up one other point - sometimes Arcview layouts containing images won't print by simply choosing "File->Print" when in a layout.  The job will appear in the queue for awhile then disappear without ever producing a hardcopy.  You need to use "File->Export" in a layout, save as a postcript file, then arcpress the postscript and print the outfile. The syntax from a UNIX prompt:

arcpress file.eps -ofile.out -S70 -v -drtl36_cmyk
lpr file.out

Notes: there cannot be a space between the '-o' and the output file name. The -S70 means 70% saturation, which gives b&w orthos and USGS quads a nice look; you may want to use 50% to 60% for color orthos.

Last Updated 3/22/2000
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