Printing maps and diagrams

Printing, PDF, and embedding diagrams

Ksawery Lisinski avatar
Written by Ksawery Lisinski
Updated over a week ago

It is similar to emailing a document around and then having to collate everybody’s feedback, rather than inviting people to review, comment and provide input to a central document in the cloud.

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  • Prerequisites

  • View online, don't print - but you can print

  • Embedding image in a third party document

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Prerequisites

  • Registered and verified Elements account

  • Edit rights to a process map

View online, don't print - but you can print

Maps are designed to be viewed online within the context of the other diagrams and attachments. You cannot print an entire map. You can print each diagram from the print icon on the diagram toolbar:

Clearly there’s a time and a reason when printing is necessary, and we are committed to adding capability surrounding printing over the coming months to enable printing across scopes of diagrams and improving the visible titles, level numbering etc. However...

Think before you print. Bring people to the process – don’t send the process out to the people!  We have designed an app which makes it easy to share and collaborate.

Some people will choose (out of habit?) to print to PDF and email/post PDFs as a way to share process content. While this is easy to do for the odd diagram, it misses the whole point of providing a free collaborative cloud-based solution for teams of people to capture, share and communicate around process knowledge.

Embedding image in a third party document

We recognize that there are going to be times when you have to put content into another app. The easiest is to use a screenshot or snipping tool. There are plenty around, but both Macs and Windows do it for you.

Option 1

You can use the zoom icons on the diagram toolbar to get the diagram to the size you want and then take a screenshot – or drag a sized screen-grab of the content you want. Paste the image into your documentation.

For Mac, (cmd-shift-4)

For Windows, click for their support page (different for different versions of Windows)

Option 2

You can print a diagram from the print icon on the diagram toolbar. Choose to print to PDF and then embed the PDF into your document.

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