[PLUG] printing to scale part of a pdf document

wes plug at the-wes.com
Sat Apr 10 18:57:29 UTC 2021


I would do this the easy way: take a screenshot of the area I want to
print, paste it into my favorite image editor, and cut out the parts I
don't want.

-wes

On Saturday, April 10, 2021, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a 150 MB pdf file (66 pages) which has some scaled drawings
> (1/4"/ft).  I want to print a portion of a couple of these drawings. I
> think the portion of the drawings I want will fit on a 8 1/2 x 11 page.
> What programs might I use to do  this?  I have tried LibreOffice Draw.  It
> preserves the scale, but I cannot seem to move the printing "window" to
> the part of the drawing I want.  It seems that the document has some large
> page size, likely the size used for construction drawings.
>
> Running Ubuntu 20.04
>
> Thanks,
> -Denis
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