HyperSnap-DX 5's page setup contains quite a few advanced features. Here's an explanation of each, in the approximate order that it appears in the dialog.

On the top of the properties page is a preview of how your settings will look. This changes in real-time as you modify the properties on the sheet.

Paper size - this controls the selections of paper the program will use to format the document as it prints it. This must match what's actually in your printer or what you print will not come out as you desire. Drop down the list to examine the available sizes.

Paper source - this controls from which tray (for printers with multiple trays) that the program will select paper. Very handy if you want to do "test" printouts using plain paper in a lower tray, and "final" printouts in clay-covered paper in a top tray.

Orientation settings - select either Portrait (the "standard" way you print most things such as a letter, Landscape (like a spreadsheet), or Best Fit. With Best Fit, the program examines the proportions of the image and automatically determines which would best work with your document, trying to maximize the appearance of the image in respect to the aspect ratio of the page.

Header and Footer... - click this button to define header and footer text to use on the pages. On the following property sheet that appears you can define the text and position of the headers and footers, all of which is fairly self-explanatory.

Margins - define the margins that you wish to use. Note that you cannot define a margin beyond those supported by your printer. Consult your printer's documentation for the exact numbers here.

Margins of error.

You can define margins wider than your printer supports (that is, farther in on the page) but you cannot define margins that attempt to print content farther out towards the edge of the page than the printer supports. Typically inkjet printers need at least a half inch, and lasers can sometimes print within one eighth of an inch, sometimes all the way to the edge.

Due to paper handling, some printers need a larger margin at the bottom of the page than at the top. If you print in landscape mode this means that your right margin will need to be bigger than your left which can affect the visual centering of your image.

Center image - check this to have the program place your image directly in the center of the page. If you're not going to trim off the white space around the image, this is probably a good idea to check (it will make the image appear more nicely formatted on the page, in genera).

Colors - here you can control certain functions such as Inverting black and white (just like what it sounds), Black and white only (converting the image from color or grayscale to black and white, which allows you to print color images to printer drivers that do not support them, such as dot-matrix printers), and Draw frame, which puts a border around the image. That's handy if the image contains white area that might cause it to blend in with the page's background.

Scaling - choose from either Auto-fit to fill the page, maximizing the image on the paper, or Scaling, where you can select values from 10000% to 1%. If you check Auto-fit and the image is too large, the program will scale down your image until it best fits on the selected page size. This choice makes the size of the image relative to the size of the paper selected, too.

Printer - using this button, select the printer you wish to use. This choice will change how the printed image is handled. For example if the default printer is a grayscale laser and you select a printer with color capabilities, then you might wish to make sure you have not converted the image to black and white.

You can click OK or Cancel, either setting your changes as the defaults, or discarding them.

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