“Print Preview" palette

Tool(s): 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.

Note: When you open the palette, the program uses the most recent *.ppv file.

Settings

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

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.

Format

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

Number of copies

Specify the number of copies.

Orientation

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 the values 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.

Margins

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

Top, Left, Right, Bottom

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

Header, Footer

Define the width of the header and footer from the margin.

Reset

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

Display of elements

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

Scale

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

Print construction lines

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 Layout Editor. When printing straight from 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 in the Properties palette to specify whether elements are drawn as construction lines. Use Show/Hide to globally show or hide elements drawn as construction lines.

Thick line

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.

Active elements black

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).

Passive elements black

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 color visible on screen to print elements in reference drawing files.

Show margins

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

Header and footer

Select this check box to display and print the header and footer.
You can define the contents of the header and footer in the Header and footer palette, which you can open by clicking the Set button.

Default position

Specify where you want to display the screen contents in print preview after you have started it.

• Bottom left
  You can see the screen contents at bottom left.
• Centered
  You can see the screen contents in the middle.
• Current view
  The view in print preview matches that in Allplan.

Display when starting

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. The program uses either the width or the height of the workspace.