Print Preview Formatting Options: Page Setup

Description

For graphical prints

Page margins

Sets the page margin along the top, bottom, left and right edges of the page.

The margin along each edge takes into account the non-printable area of the active printer. Different printers have different non-printable margins (which may be asymmetric). You cannot define a page margin to be less than that non-printable margin for the active printer.

Line weight

Sets the thickness of border lines to display on each page.

Line weights range from no border to a 3 point border. The border line weight controls the thickness of the outer page border and the dividing lines between columns, if multi-column is used. This border line weight is not used by the title block or graphic legends.

Caption

Enter text to display as a caption on the printed pages.

The caption is truncated if it is wider than the page (i.e., the caption text does not wrap over multiple lines).

Alignment

Aligns the caption to the left, centre, or right.

Position

Places the caption at the top or bottom of the page.

Captions are placed outside the border lines but inside the title block, letterhead and footer text.

Paint background

If set, include the background colour for graphical prints.

If not set, the background colour is not printed and the paper colour becomes the background.

Display legend

If set, displays legends on the page.

Legends are additional boxes showing information such as entity counts, view angle and current load and freedom cases.

Length unit

Physical dimension unit of the formatting fields in one of centimetres, millimetres or inches.

Common Controls

For text prints

Page margins

Sets the page margin along the top, bottom, left and right edges of the page.

The margin along each edge takes into account the non-printable area of the active printer. Different printers have different non-printable margins (which may be asymmetric). You cannot define a page margin to be less than that non-printable margin for the active printer.

Line weight

Sets the thickness of border lines to display on each page.

Line weights range from no border to a 3 point border. The border line weight controls the thickness of the outer page border and the dividing lines between columns, if multi-column is used. The border line weight is not used by the title block or graphic legends.

Line gutter

Sets the border gutter width for text prints.

A gutter is the minimum distance between text and border lines. Line gutters are ignored if there is no line weight.

Field spacing

Sets the spacing between separate printable quantities.

Columns

Displays the text in one, two or three columns on each page.

Spacing between columns

Sets the spacing between columns.

Draw lines between columns

If set, lines are drawn between the columns.

Length unit

Physical dimension unit of the formatting fields in one of centimetres, millimetres or inches.

Common Controls

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