Item

Description

Selected Printer

Make sure that you select a printer first.

Plot Margins

Set the unit of measure and the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins.

NOTE: the printer driver will return the hard margins of the printer. These are represented by the black dashed line in the Partial Preview mode. Setting the margins less than the hard margin values will have no effect.

Center

Adjusts the left and top margins to center the entities in the given space.

Upside Down

Rotate the output to the plotter

Orientation

Portrait/Landscape

Paper Size

Scale

Numerical scaling of the entities to the paper.

Scale to Fit

Fit the entities to the paper

1:1

Scale 1:1

Black and White

Out as Bitmap

Render to a bitmap then output that. Has different effect on quality depending on printer/plotter.

Copies

Pen Assignment

Shows the Pen Assignment dialog. You can assign a different line thickness to each of the 255 indexed colors.

Print Area

Pick a window or print the extents

Preview Mode

Full preview or partial view to show margins.

Update Preview

Refresh the preview

Print

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