If you already know how to print pdf patterns, ignore this post.
The jacket construction posts are next so stay tuned.

Did I hear you say ‘I don’t use pdf patterns’?
If you did, this post might help you realise pdf pattern are a fast way of getting the pattern you love right now.
You know you want to. But you may have had a bad experience. Am I right?

Iconic pdf facts
Here are three pdf pattern facts about Iconic patterns.

• If you decide to use the print shop version, Iconic Patterns can be printed on 36″ (91 cm) wide paper.
• You can use A4 or US Letter size paper to print your Iconic Pattern at home.
• The sewing instructions are part of the pdf and there are additional instructions on the Iconic Pattern website.

PDF patterns will have a test square for you to check your printer settings are correct.

Lena has already written a neat post about printing pdf patterns.

Check the version
If you decide to print this pattern at home, make sure it’s the latest version. So if you have a pdf pattern in your pattern stash and you’re not sure it’s the latest version, check with the pattern designer. Send them an email. Am I right Gabrielle?

Print the pages with no scaling
Tiled patterns are printed with either ‘no scaling’ or at ‘100%’. I always choose ‘no scaling’ when I print so I know the version I printed pattern is not changed.

Don’t print from the skydrive or cloud
That’s what I did thinking this would be faster than downloading the pdf file to the computer and than printing it using Adobe Reader. 
When I printed the pdf pattern from the sky drive, the pages didn’t print off correctly. Bits were missing. The pattern tiles were not complete or to scale.

This was printed from the sky drive – wrong.

Then I tried again by printing the pdf using Adobe Reader. The pages were perfect.

Leave the borders on your pattern pieces.
Iconic patterns line up nicely with the border lines left on each piece.
To keep your master pattern firm, have at least one side overlap so the paper pieces are stable to use again and again.

I cut the border off the pattern pieces in sets of 5 and they looked too small. That was a disaster waiting to happen. There are no tile matching notches on Iconic patterns so you’ll need to leave the page borders on each page to make sure each tile lines up correctly.

Read this if this is your first crack at pattern downloads using a pdf file

Try this:
1. Open the PDF file.
If you can’t find the pdf you downloaded, check your hard drive ‘downloads’ drive.
Still can’t find it?  Search ‘1501’ in your file search field. 1501 is the name in all three pdfs for Jackie.
2. Page through until you are viewing page 12 with the test square. 
Print this page off first and check the test square dimensions. If they are wrong, try changing the printer setting page settings to ‘none’. 

3. Start the printing process by pressing Control +P or go to File, then select print. 

4. To print only the test page, in the Print Range box, click the radio button to select Current Page (the page you are currently viewing). Note that you can use various settings in the Print Range box to control which pages to print.

5. In the Page Handling box, use the Page Scaling drop-down list and select None. (In my experience, this is usually the correct Page Handling setting for printing PDF patterns.)

6. Click the OK button to print the test page.

7. Measure the test box on the printed test page. If it’s the right size, then use None as the Page Handling setting when you print the entire PDF file. .

Others who have good printing pdf patterns posts are: 
Burda Style
Craftsy
Christine Johnson
Lekala patterns

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