Page Sets - Page Size Category
Use the settings in the Page Size category to specify the page size and orientation of pages formatted by your page set.
• Page size - Provides a list of available page sizes.
You can also specify a custom size by specifying dimensions in the Width and Height fields. The value of this field will change to Custom.
• Portrait - Prints all content in portrait format
If this setting is selected, click Landscape to change it. Making this change will swap the values in the Width and Height fields.
• Landscape - Prints all content in landscape format
If this setting is selected, click Portrait to change it. Making this change will swap the values in the Width and Height fields.
• Width - Specifies the width of the page on which the document is printed. The field is populated automatically when you select a standard page size. If you make a change to Width or Height when you have selected a standard page size in the Page size list, that setting will change to Custom when you leave the field.
• Height - Specifies the height of the page on which the document is printed. The field is populated automatically when you select a standard page size.
• Preview - Displays the results of the settings made in this category.
Refer to
Setting a Page Size and Orientation for a Page Set for examples and further information to assist you in configuring the page size settings for a page set.
You can also use the settings in the Page Size category to specify the margins for your page set. You can specify margins for single-sided page sets, double-sided page sets, and double-sided page sets with mirror margins.
Margins specified by the properties in this category are guides only. They are only used to provide the correct positioning for regions that are given measures relative to the margins (see the
Position category of the
Page Regions list). If a page set contains regions that all have absolute positioning, the margins will have no effect.
The Page Size category always includes the following options for margins:
• Top - Specifies the distance from the top of the page to the top of the body of the document.
• Bottom - Specifies the distance from the bottom of the page to the bottom of the body of the document.
The category contains the following options when you are creating a page set for a single-sided document (with the Double-sided option deselected):
• All pages - sets the left and right margins for every page formatted by this page set:
◦ Left - Specifies the distance from the left edge of the page to the left edge of the document content.
◦ Right - Specifies the distance from the right edge of the page to the right edge of the document content.
The tab contains the following options when you are creating a page set for a double-sided document (with the Double-sided option selected):
• Mirror margins - Specifies that the margins configured for a left page should be mirrored on right pages throughout the page set.
• Left pages - Sets the left and right margins for the left pages that will be formatted with this page set.
When Mirror margins is selected, the fields in this group are unavailable. The settings made in the Right pages field will be mirrored on left pages.
◦ Left - Specifies the distance from the left edge of the page to the left edge of the document content
◦ Right - Specifies the distance from the right edge of the page to the right edge of the document
• Right pages - Sets the left and right margins for the right pages that will be formatted with this page set.
When Mirror margins is selected, the Left setting will be applied to the outside margins and the Right setting will form the inside margins of all pages.
◦ Left - Specifies the distance from the left edge of the page to the left edge of the document content
◦ Right - Specifies the distance from the right edge of the page to the right edge of the document
When margins are not to be mirrored, this field will be deactivated if your stylesheet is set to generate print/PDF output via the FOSI or XSL-FO print engines. This will ensure that the content width is always the same for left and right pages. Please switch to the PTC ALD engine if you wish to apply different content widths in left and right pages.
Refer to
Setting Margins in a Page Set for examples and further information to assist you in configuring the margins for a page set.
The
Width,
Height,
Top,
Bottom,
Left, and
Right fields allow you to either type an arbitrary size in the field or choose a defined size by selecting from the list of Size objects configured for your stylesheet. For the latter option, click the
Select Size button
next to the field for which you wish to set the measurement and select the name of the required Size object from the resulting list. Once you have selected a Size object the measurement it defines will be displayed wrapped in angle brackets (< > characters) in the relevant field. For example, the Size object
InchSize defines a measurement of 1.00in:
