Ez-Architect – A Bug has been found!!!

Okay, we admit it. We’re not perfect. But really, all these years and no one ran into this until last month! Really, has anyone been using this software?

Is your “printed” page blank?

Does your printout not fit the page properly?

Is it cut off where you don’t expect it to?

There are several reasons that these things may happen.

And here are several things to check:

First: Check your scale. For example if you selected 1/4″ = 1′. Given that a sheet of paper is 11″ long, the longest object you could place (at that scale) on the one sheet would be 44 feet, so if you have an object longer than 44 feet or if any part of your plan exceeds 44 feet, it cannot fit on a single sheet of paper.
If you select 2 sheets by 1 sheet of paper, the drawing (at the 1/4″= 1′ scale) will cross over two sheets. However, if you tell the program 1 sheet but draw something that is bigger than the one sheet, things don’t work so well, the program doesn’t really know how to handle it, so it prints just part of it.

Second: Check your paper size. As noted above, if your plan is bigger than the paper size you’ve selected, the printing won’t work properly. Items will be cut off or will try to print (oddly) to the only available page. And please note: there is an anomaly in Ez-Architect where this happens. Suppose you select legal paper and 2 x 2 page layout. If you save your plan and then open it again and then go to the paper size dialog, it will say “letter.”  Note this is only a dialog error not an error in the program. Because if you look at your plan and its layout, you’ll see that your plan is still has legal sized pages.

Third: Check your page layout. This refers to how many pages your plan will cover.

Fourth: Check your printer resolution.

The faint lines that occur on some of the printed objects relate to printer resolution and capability. I, too, can see your plan on my screen (which is set at 1440 x 900 resolution) and some objects print very weakly on one printer (b/w laser) in most of the “better” settings I’ve tried (it is an older printer). However my other printer (color inkjet) printed the plan very nicely, where the lines that hardly show on the laser printout are somewhat light on the inkjet, but they are clearly there, just delicate looking. So you might try another printer or different printer settings so you can see the objects without having to alter your plan.
The other option is to make all the lines in the objects that aren’t printing thicker.  Just select the object and change the line width. Experiment with printing to see what thickness prints adequately before you make them too thick, as on my screen some of the line thicknesses don’t look any different from each other on the screen.

And here’s the clincher, or is it the clinker?

Did you set your page orientation to Landscape? Yes, oh my, if you set your page size for Landscape, your plan will not print! oh my, and oh my again; so many thousands of you out there using this software for years and August 2012 was the first time anyone ran into this problem. Are we all so Portrait oriented that we never ever tried to print the wide way. My goodness, how normal we all must be.

Never fear, the developer has been notified along with a list of other minor glitchees and suggestions for the improving the program. So, if you’re reading and you’re a user who has wishes, now’s the time to get your wish on the wish list for the next update. We don’t know when, but we can say, eventually. But if you don’t speak, you won’t be heard. So let us know.

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