Print Preview Mode

Printing using Print Preview allows user to customize printout and to see expected effect before printing.

Entering Print Preview is done by clicking Print button on Viewer toolbar:

Print Preview Toolbar:

Advanced Print allows for selecting custom options for single print operation in a Print Preview Mode.

Toolbars specific for Print Preview mode:

Viewport Scale

Viewport - shows selected viewport by mouse click on the preview window

Scale - show scale of the image - can be adjusted to listed values in the dropdown, entered manually or set by zoom in / zoom out in preview window.

Formats

List of available output formats.

Printouts are created as PDF documents. This format will be applied to PDF page size. If you wish to print the PDF on a physical paper, please create the PDF printout with the corresponding paper size for best results.

Orientation

Select from Landscape or Portrait orientation.

Template

Select a Blank or predefined template. List of templates is limited by selection of paper format and orientation.

New templates can be added by a system administrator with the help of Template Editor

Print

- Print - perform print according to selected settings

- Fill in form values - function to list and fill in all form values. Read more about Macros

- Spots - highlight selected spots

- Notes - generate report for Notes. Read more about: Notes with text and images

- Help - open Print Help

- Exit - exit print

Working with preview window

In Print Preview pane scale and location of the drawing can be adjusted by mouse (pan and zoom) - that means: what you see in viewer is what you get on PDF printout.

If there are no Print Templates available for selected Orientation and Paper Size, a blank key word is displayed (grayed out). A blank template is prepared automatically based on selected parameters. A Single View port is added that matches the paper size, default margins are subtracted.
This situation will also happen for users that do not have any print template set assigned. Blank template will use paper size defined by Administrator in System Print Settings.

When printing from PDF file to paper, please set printer properties to "Actual Size" mode. In other case printout may not have proper scale.

Print output format

When printing from Print Preview, there is an option to choose whether to print to PDF or IMAGE (PNG) format.

Only PNG format is available and only from Print Preview mode.