Printing with Windows

Making Settings on the Layout Menu

Making Reduce/Enlarge settings
Making Multi-Page settings
Making Watermark settings

You can make Reduce/Enlarge, Multi-Page, and Watermark settings on the Layout menu. Refer to the appropriate section below.

Making Reduce/Enlarge settings

Use the Reduce/Enlarge options on the Layout menu to adjust the printed size of your document.

You can select from the following settings.

Fit to Page

Proportionally enlarges or reduces the size of your document to make it fit the paper size selected in the Output Paper Size list.

Custom

Allows you to manually reduce or enlarge an image. Click the arrows next to the Scale to box to select a percentage between 10% and 400%.


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Making Multi-Page settings

Selecting the Multi-Page check box allows you to choose between the N-up and Poster settings. Refer to the appropriate section below.

Making N-up settings

Select N-up as the Multi-Page setting on the Layout menu to print two or four pages of your document on one sheet of paper.

When N-up is selected, you can make the following settings:

2 Pages
4 Pages

Prints two or four pages of your document on a single piece of paper.

Page Order

Opens the Print Layout dialog box, where you can specify the order in which the pages will be printed. Some settings may be unavailable, depending upon the Orientation selection on the Paper menu.

Print page frames

Prints frames around the pages printed on each sheet.

Making Poster settings

A single document page can be enlarged to cover 4, 9, or 16 printed sheets of paper. Select Poster as the Multi-Page setting to print a poster-size image.

Click the Settings button to adjust the way your poster will print. The Poster Settings dialog box opens.

You can make the following settings.

Print Cutting Guides

Check this box to turn the cutting guide options on.

Overlapping Alignment Marks

Slightly overlaps the images and prints alignment markers so that they can be aligned more precisely.

Trim Lines

Prints border lines on the images to guide you when trimming the pages.

If you only want to print a few of the panels without printing the entire poster, click the panels that you do not wish to print, then click OK to close the Poster Settings dialog box.


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Making Watermark settings

To print a watermark on your document, click anywhere in the Watermark list box on the Layout menu and select a watermark.

You can also add your own text-based or image-based watermarks to the Watermark list. To add a watermark, click the Add/Del button. The following dialog box appears.

Refer to the appropriate section below to finish creating a custom watermark.

Creating an image-based watermark

Follow the steps below to create an image-based watermark.

Select BMP.

Click the Browse button to specify the bitmap file you want to use, then click OK.

Type a name for your watermark in the Name box, then click Save. Click OK to return to the Layout menu.

Creating a text-based watermark

Follow the steps below to create a text-based watermark.

Select Text.

Type your text in the Text box. The text that you enter will also be used as the watermark name.

If you want to change the watermark name, type a new name in the Name box, then click Save. Click OK to return to the Layout menu.

Adjusting the appearance of watermarks

Follow the steps below to adjust the appearance of watermarks when printed.

Select a watermark in the Watermark list box on the Layout menu.

Click the Settings button. The following dialog box appears.

Make sure that the appropriate watermark is selected in the Watermark list box, then make Color, Position, Density, Size, Font, Font Style, and Angle settings. (For details, see online help.) Your settings are reflected in the display at the left side of the dialog box.

When you are finished making settings, click OK.


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