Settings for print preview

Using the Print Preview palette, you can select and set up the printer, define the width of the margins and the width and contents of the header and footer. In addition, you can specify how the elements appear in the printout and make a number of additional settings. You can also save the settings for print preview and load the settings you saved.

You can select and set up the printer. When you open print preview for first time, the program automatically uses the standard Windows printer.

Select the output device in the list box. Click the

Settings icon to specify the properties (for example, paper and color options) of the selected output device or the raster driver set.

Select the paper size in the list box. The program reads the values of the printable area from the driver and displays them for information.

Choose the orientation:

Portrait or

Landscape.
Depending on the orientation you select, the program reads the minimum values for the margins from the driver and corrects them if this is necessary.

In order to calculate the maximum printable area, the program subtracts the width of the margins and the width of the header and footer from the printable area you define by choosing the Format.

Define the width of the margins and the width of the header and footer. You can also drag the margins to the desired width.

Set the width of the margins. The minimum values depend on the printer set. The program automatically corrects these values if this is necessary.

With this button, you can reset the margins back to their defaults. The default values of the margins depend on the printer set. The default value for the header is 10 mm and that for the footer is 20 mm.

Define how the elements of print preview appear in the final printout and specify the contents of the header and footer. In addition, you can define where the elements appear in print preview after you have started it.

Define the scale. You can use any scale. Just click in the box, type in the scale and press ENTER to confirm.

Select the Print construction lines check box to include elements drawn as construction lines in printouts.

Elements in construction line format are drawing aids. They are not included in printouts you create using the Layout module. When printing straight from the print preview, you can specify whether construction lines are to appear in printouts. The line type and color of construction lines can be changed in the Options. You can use Construction Line on/off on the Format toolbar to specify whether elements are drawn as construction lines. Use Show/Hide to globally show or hide elements drawn as construction lines.

Select the Thick line check box to print lines with their actual width. Otherwise, the program uses the same, thin line for all the lines in the printout.

Select the Active elements black check box to print all the elements in active drawing files in black. Otherwise, the colors on screen match those in printouts (if you use a color printer).

Select the Passive elements black check box to print all the elements in reference drawing files in black (regardless of the setting of the Use same color for elements in reference drawing files option (

Options - Desktop environment, Display page - Drawing file and NDW window area)). Otherwise, color printers use the colors on screen to print the elements in reference drawing files.

Select this check box to display and print a border indicating the margins and the area for the header and footer

Select this check box to display and print the contents of the header and footer.
Click the Set button to define the contents of the header and footer.

Define the scale for starting print preview. This setting will not apply until you restart print preview.

With the As section on screen setting, the program sets the scale in such a way that the entire contents of the workspace are visible.