Page setup dialog
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.
To print this topic, right-click this window
and select Print.