Report Designer Reference Manual

By means of the properties, you can make different settings for each layout region for printer, page size, orientation, duplex print, number of copies, sort copies and paper bin (e.g. first page on company letterhead and normal paper for the following pages).

The printer settings (and changed export format options) are saved in a special file (e.g. Article_List.lsp). If the respective file is not available when printing, the current default Windows printer is used.

If you change the page size for card projects or single labels (1x1), you can decide via the question "Should the new page size be used for the workspace" whether the size of the workspace should be retained (No) or should correspond to the newly selected page size. If you keep the page size, the workspace can be larger or smaller than the actual page size.


Size Adjustment

Specifies whether the project is to be adjusted to fit the page when different printers are used when printing from the preview or whether the scale is to be kept.


Use Physical Page

Specifies whether the whole physical page, including the non printable margin area, is to be available in the Designer. This is sometimes necessary in order to position labels correctly, e.g. if you use sheets of labels without margins. The non-printable page margins are shown as hatched areas in the preview.

This enables you to use the complete page when defining the layout of your project but, of course, the printer cannot print these margins. If you place objects on such projects, you must still consider the non-printable margins. If this property is set to "False", only the area that can actually be printed is shown in the workspace.


Force Paper Size

If there is no printer definition file, the application tries to force the page size set during design (e.g. Letter) as far as possible. This is only possible, however, if the selected printer supports either exactly this size or the "user-defined" option. If this is not the case, it will first check whether the printer's default size is large enough, otherwise it will choose the next largest size.