Project: Printing the Diagram: Preview

By selecting the item in this group Project of the main menu opens a window, as shown below:

As shown in the figure, the preview window is made up of some areas. In the upper zone are some fields that display the current configuration of the press, which you can change using the "Print Setup". On the right is a vertical panel, which displays thumbnails of pages in which it broke down the plot of the project, depending on size, their orientation and print resolution, the format of these miniatures may be different. At the center is a panel that displays the current page, the page design is for obvious reasons dimensioned to fit to available but gives an idea of how the release will be made final.

A page can be selected and displayed in the center panel by clicking on the left button on a thumbnail displayed on the side panel, the selected page will be designed with dimensions greater central panel, while the miniature will be highlighted by a border of red. In one of the fields to the upper window, see the current page number and the total number of pages which make up the plot.

Given the size of the plot of the project, as described in previous chapters, pgDesigner provides an algorithm that determines the areas useful to the press, eliminating areas that do not contain objects or graphic elements (see areas and key relation); this, so avoid unnecessary printing blank pages and consequently wasting paper (a little economy and less wood to be cut).

As mentioned, each page contains a section diagram of the project to identify pages on each sheet is drawn one edge and, externally, basic information, including the name of the project and the date of revision, the date press and page number.

As mentioned, you can at any time change the print settings, accessing to a window in which you can determine both the driver and the destination printer, the size and orientation of the prints. The setting will remain valid even after the closure of the preview window, and reported on the diagram.

As you can see in the window are two check, the first everything possible to reduce the graph in a single page. Obviously, the size of the graph can heavily influence this choice, a very large graph could be illegibile if reduced and printed on a single page, specially trained in very small print. The second check can save the graphic image to a file.