I have a question about printing A3 map from QGIS. I'm going to make A3 map of one country and nearby countries, digitalise borders etc. I want to save it to A3 format, but I have only A4 printer, that prints my map on one sheet of paper, not two, as I expected. If I use A3 printer, my map will print in proper size? I saved my map in PDF, if relevant.
[GIS] Printing A3 format map
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You can use the QGIS Atlas plugin, which in the current build of QGIS is no longer a plugin but a core feature of the composer. Atlas will allow you use a coverage layer, in your case would be a street level grid over you map, to print the composer for each feature in the coverage layer. The grid does not need to be uniform, in fact you can even use points or lines.
First of all I would strongly recommend that you export your map to either a PDF or an image file and use that to plot. This is especially true for very complex maps with lots of layers, rasters, transparencies, annotations, etc.
The Page Print and Setup Dialog has nothing to do with printing. Its sole purpose is to set a physical layout page size of your map. You can select your printer (and their loaded page sizes) which makes it easy to just select your page without having to enter the size manually.
Just select A0, use printer settings and click OK.
On the layout, expand and move the data frame however you like. The purpose of the layout is to arrange all the graphical components on the layout which has the physical dimensions of the final map. The data frame in the layout is like a viewport.
I would not worry much about the little graphic on the dialog box either. I normally just set my page size manually or using Adobe Acrobat but i tried selecting my plotter with the same page size that my map has and checking on the "Use Printer Paper Settings" and "SHow Margins" and the image preview is completely wrong as you can see below but the size and the printer margin is correct:
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Simply install a printer that prints in file. Choose a big color printer from let's say HP that supports A3 and direct the output to file. Then select the printer from your print dialog and make the setting as usual for the paper format.... Done.
PS: I would look for a printer driver that supports PS