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a5 printing of briefing pack - issue?


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Fleagle
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Does anyone else print the briefing pack on A5 paper? (no i don't mean 2 up on A4)- I mean genuine a5 paper.)

‌When I try doing this although the PDF it generates looks great on the iPhone/ipad preview  (where you then select the air print printer),the physical print doesn't start until a third down the paper so chops all the bottom off your plog, weather, notams or charts etc etc. 
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‌I've tried all the appropriate printer settings for a5 and my printer has the latest drivers/firmware. I have no problem printing a5 from any other app where supported or indeed a PC or MAC -it's  just the SD app that throws roughly a third of the page before starting printing. 

‌I wondered if extraneous  postscript LF or similar codes were being thrown to the printer that the screen PDF render ignores (hence it looks fine on iPhone/ipad SCREEN) but the printer executes faithfully. No amount of me playing with settings has resolved this.

‌thanks

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Thanks for the suggestions.
‌Exporting the pdf from SD to Adobe Acrobat for iOS - still the same issue when printed directly from Adobe app via AirPrint - printing doesn't start until approx a third down the A5 paper.

‌If I email myself the briefing PDF from iOS and print from a desktop machine it all works fine. So at least I have a way around the problem - just a shame of losing the convenience of AirPrint and having to go fire up my desktop to print stuff off.

‌It would be interesting to know if anyone has this problem or is it peculiar to my hardware/set up? - surely I'm not the only person in the SD universe using SD to print plogs etc on A5?  ;-)




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