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Necking of Bars & Print Previews,,

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Jonathan WardMember for 19 years 8 months
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Hello all,

Once again, any help that anyone could be would be hugely appreciated. Here is the story,,, I have a schedule that I am ready to create a PDF from the Activity View, the strange thing is that the Gant Chart (Activity View) shows a group of activity bars that have ’necked’ (this is fine as I have allowed necking) however the Print Preview of the schedule AND once I have created the PDF show the same group of bars with NO necking,, very odd,, the dates are the same i.e. START and FINSH,, any ideas???

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    Arnold Puy ·
    #1
    Hi Jonathan,

    Try to adjust the "% Normal Size" in Page Setup.

    Arnold
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    David Podmore ·
    #2
    I’m sorry to report that this feature is a bug in P3e and is subject to a "future enhancement". Primavera-speak for "it’s broken".

    One day....
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    Shahzad Ahmad ·
    #3
    Hi

    I was also facing same problem.

    you can print pdf in A3 size and take it print out in A4 size neckbar should be visiable and time scale also clear try it.

    I did the same its help me.

    Thanks
    shahzad
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    Dieter Wambach ·
    #4
    Hi

    As I don’t like the necking of bars I can’t remember if I ever tried.
    I just tried to print - it worked. We use P6.2

    Regards
    Dieter
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    David Podmore ·
    #5
    Nope, that doesn’t work for me. If it’s not visible on the preview screen, it won’t print out on paper/pdf.

    Primavera acknowledge it is a real problem. There is a workaround using User defined fields and Global Change but it is not elegant and needs running each time you wish to print.
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    David Podmore ·
    #6
    You jammy s*d Dieter. V6.2 fixes it? Well, I must get on to my I.T. chaps and get it loaded...

    D
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    Dieter Wambach ·
    #7
    David

    I just checked with different printers and pdf. All were ok. But if you don’t see it in the print preview, it won’t be printed. Print preview already uses the driver for the printer that you access.

    Maybe it was fixed with 6.2.

    Good luck!

    Dieter
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    Doyin Mcarthur ·
    #8

    I have the same issue and I

    I have the same issue and I am using P6 v7.

    I am trying to show non work period on my layout, when I chose bar necking it appears on my screen but as soon as I go to Print preview or print it’s gone, how I can solve this?

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    Amit Parmar (PMP) ·
    #9

    Hi,I am using P6v7 with

    Hi,

    I am using P6v7 with service pack 3, and i am able to get the non-working times in my prinout. I tried creating a PDF with a PDF printer and i was able to get the printout. Can you tell me what timescale are you using and on what paper size are you trying to print?

     

    Regards

    Amit Parmar

    Check out my blog on Primavera at http://www.primaverablog.in

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