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Page Setup
Rulers
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Page Stamp
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Drawing Presentation


This area of the panel shows a schematic of the layout of the complete drawing. There are also parameters for controlling the presentation of rulers and the numbering of pages.

The "Layout Schematic" shows each page as a gray rectangle. The aspect ratio of the page representation is true to page shape which is determined by setting on the Page Setup parameter panel. The primary parameter effecting the page shape is the "Orientation" selection. As you change the number of pages down or across the effects are shown in this window.

There are two ways to number the pages, "across then down" or "down then across". The check box found in the top-right of the panel determines the numbering method. Page numbering effects Page Stamps which are special text boxes that may be placed anywhere on the drawing. The numbering order also effects the order in which pages are printed.

Two check-boxes for controlling the presentation of Rulers are found just below the Layout Schematic. Rulers may be shown along the Left and Top of a drawing. If the "Display Rulers" check-box is checked rulers are shown on display windows. You may also control this parameter with the menu command "Show/Hide Rulers" found near the bottom of the Tools menu on the main menu. The "Print Rulers" check-box determines if the rulers are shown when printing the drawing to hard-copy output.

A Page Stamp is a text box with a page number like those shown in the example to the right. The actual page number shown is automatically updated to reflect the Page Stamp's page number and the total number of pages in the document. This Page Stamp is dynamic, when "Pages Across" or "Pages Down" are changed, all of the document's page stamps will change appropriately.

The color of the schematic-pages is always gray. These page icons cannot be used to rearrange the layout of the drawing, you need to use the EazyDraw window (zoom it way out and show page breaks) to do that.