Choose Print, Preferences, Orientation: Landscape
Prints a ‘distorted’ Portrait Chart insofar as Page Layout is Portrait, and image is toward upper of page (I.e. it is not simply printing a Portrait page - on which the image is Centred vertically (& shorter).
NO other changes to anything - simply uninstalled pre-v15 Release & installed v15
All System updates are current, I.e. Windows, Printer Driver etc
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Furthermore, what it then Prints in Landscape mode is a ‘truncated’ Chart image I.e. what is visible in the Chart window onscreen and should print across A4 297mm width in Landscape, is truncated after 210mm from LHS.
Result: right-hand edge and most recent 1/3 of data series is not printed making printing of all/any charts unfit for any practical purpose
Don’t know what happens in Portrait, comes under category CBA
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While someone else may be able to better address printing directly from NinjaTrader, what I like to do get a screenshot or exported chart image into an image editing program. Image editing programs don’t just excel at printing images, you can also add annotations and edit the image in all kinds of ways that trading platforms don’t support and save them digitally for use in all kinds of valuable ways, such as a digital trading journal that you can make with Microsoft OneNote or another program. I use Snagit from TechSmith usually, but Microsoft Windows has built-in image editing that is completely free.
If I want a whole screenshot of the entire screen with NinjaTrader on it or if I want to include the parts of the NinjaTrader chart window around the chart I press the “PrtScn” button on my keyboard.
If I want just a picture of the chart, I either just use the Snagit screen capture program for more control over the area of the screen that gets captured, or I right click on the chart and choose “Save Chart Image”.
I realize that this doesn’t answer your question about printing a chart directly from NinjaTrader, but using an image editing program as an intermediary for your NinjaTrader chart images will provide you with better printouts than any trading platform of which I am aware.
For completeness & record in case it helps anyone in future.
Problem caused by NT8 v15 Release. Prior to updating to .15 I was on v.26
I had already identified a problem (for me) with v.15 in that it ‘breaks’ virtual desktop coordinates in some cases (works with AutoIT, not AHK, vbs, Python)
Seems similar re: Landscape printing - I reverted to .26 to confirm issue doesn’t happen
v.15 re-installed - problem returned
After much c*cking around with the usual - Windows or manftrs printer drivers and the like, success.
I won’t try to describe how here, but simply put: NT’s changes to Chart windows in release 15 c/w .26 are likely ‘trigger’ along with Windows Update, Windows use of .ipp driver over manftr’s etc etc.
It isn’t exclusive to NT - there are similar issues reported/ranted about on the Brave web browser support site (and others)
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