Artboard and Mac OS X provide you with tools to print your drawings in various layouts.
To Print
Choose File > Print from the main menu.
WARNING: As noted in "Using the Style Inspector," transparencies within a gradient are not supported with PDF export and printing due to a known issue with the external PDF generator used in printing and exporting graphics; transparency in gradients is supported with TIF, JPG and PNG.
Posters! To Tile a Poster Over Multiple Printed Pages
Printed drawings come in all shapes and sizes, but you are limited by the size of paper in your printer. Artboard drawings can be larger or smaller than the physical paper size that you have in your printer. If the drawing is larger, Artboard will automatically tile the drawing over multiple printed sheets enabling you to print large posters, or ‘shrink to fit’ on a single page. If you’re feeling crafty, tiled sheets can be pieced together manually after printing. Choose "Crop Marks" from the Artboard print options to show the seams between printed sheets.
For best results, consider your purpose and what size you want during drawing setup. For easy setup, use an appropriately sized blank page template in Artboard by choosing File > New From Template. Blank templates are formatted for common paper sizes. If you need a different sized layout, change settings by choosing File > Drawing Setup in the main menu.
To Change Printer Page Size and Orientation Settings
Choose File > Page Setup… from the main menu to define your printer paper size and page orientation.
To Shrink to Fit to a Single Page for Printing
When tiling large artwork isn’t desired, you can change settings so a drawing will shrink to fit on a single page. Printing options include a simple checkbox for scaling the entire drawing to a single page by choosing File > Print > from the main menu, then checking Fit to a single page in the Artboard options.
When fitting to a single page, all objects including text will be shrunk to fit.
Alternatively, your drawing can be printed to PDF format. PDF format is the only export option that exports vector graphics that are fully scalable. Common PDF viewers provide various shrink to fit page printing options.
