Printer Setup
The Printer Setup command allows you to enter settings to control how your Arbortext IsoDraw documents are printed out. The setting options of the dialog boxes depend on which printer is connected.
In addition to the setting options you are already familiar with, Arbortext IsoDraw now features two additional input fields for specifying the Print overlap.
Your drawings will often be larger than the paper or film format which the connected printer can handle. Even if the formats do agree in size in theory, it may be the case that, due to the physical attributes of the printer you are using, the printable area of the sheet is smaller than the actual paper format. In such case, there will be a margin along the edge of the sheet which cannot be printed on.
With a LaserWriter, for example, the values for an A4 sheet (width x height) are as follows:
Paper size: | 210.0 mm x 297.0 mm |
Printable area: | 189.8 mm x 275.5 mm |
There are two ways you can print out the complete drawing:
1. By entering an appropriate reduction factor in the dialog box shown above (e.g. 70% for reduction from A3 to A4).
2. By printing out in 1:1 scale (100%) and thus spreading your drawing over several sheets.
In the latter instance, you can assemble the individual sheets into a complete drawing (e.g. on a base film). The assembly work is made easier if the individual sheets are printed out with overlaps.
When printing out with overlaps, only the printable area is taken into account. A horizontal overlap of 5 mm thus means that the printable areas of two adjacent pages overlap by 5 mm.
You can also enter different values for the horizontal and vertical overlaps.
| You can use the > command to display how the drawing is split into individual printing pages. The dividing rules mark the exact center of the specified overlap. You can set values for the print overlap if no document window is open. The settings then apply for all newly created documents. |
