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Print Setup Dialogs


A Print Setup dialog will be issued when you click the Setup button in an SDL Suite tool Print dialog, or when you click any of the setup buttons in the Contents area of the Organizer Print dialog. When you click the Setup button in the Organizer Print TTCN dialog, the Print TTCN Setup dialog will be issued. The settings in a setup dialog will affect the current group of documents.

The setup dialogs look somewhat different depending on the tool they are invoked from. There are four types of print setup dialogs:

Figure 83 : The Table of contents Print Setup dialog

Figure 84 : The Organizer Print Setup dialog

The Print Setup dialog looks the same in the Organizer and the SDL, OM, SC and HMSC Editors.

Figure 85 : The MSC Editor Print Setup dialog

Figure 86 : A viewer Print Setup dialog

The Print Setup dialog looks the same in the Link Manager, Type Viewer, the Index Viewer, the Coverage Viewer and the Text Editor.

Figure 87 The Organizer Print TTCN Setup dialog

The setup dialogs contain the following:

All areas and options mentioned will be explained below.

Print / Do not print

To specify what is to be printed and not:

  1. Select one or several items in one of the lists, if you want to move them to the other. Multiple selection is possible.
  2. Use the arrow buttons to move selected items from one list to the other.

Note:

On UNIX, you may transfer all diagrams/pages between the two lists by pressing <Shift> while clicking an arrow button.

Scale

It is possible to set the scale in almost all Print Setup dialogs. You can select Percent, Scale to fit page or Scale to fit width.

Note:

It is not possible to set the scale in the Text Editor Print Setup dialog or in the Organizer Print TTCN Setup dialog.

Percent

With the Percent radio button on, the printout of the current document category will be scaled according to the value defined in the Percent text field. The default value is 100% but you may of course change this.

Scale to fit page

With the Scale to fit page radio button on, the printout will be rescaled - if needed - to fit the physical paper size.

Scale to fit width

With the Scale to fit width button on, the documents will be rescaled in order to fit the physical paper width. The result becomes a column of pages constituting each document.

Orientation

In the Orientation options menu you may choose between the following orientations of the printout:

By changing the options, you can rotate the printout in order to optimize paper use.

Note:

The Orientation option is only enabled for the output formats One PostScript File or MSWPrint. Other formats use the portrait orientation but the layout can be adjusted by the preferences Print*Frame*XXX.

Additional Options

Below the Orientation option, there are a number of additional options, depending on which Print Setup dialog you have opened.

Print only selected symbols

If this toggle button is on, only objects that are selected in a window will be printed. This option is not available when you print from the Organizer. In an SDL Suite tool, it is disabled if no object is selected or if more than one window contain a selection.

Include Instance Ruler

This toggle button is only available in the MSC Print Setup dialog. It specifies whether an instance ruler (see Instance Ruler) should appear on each printed page or not. The instance ruler is, when printed, given an appearance similar to the one shown in the MSC Editor window.

Paper page references

This toggle button is only available in the Organizer View Print Setup dialog. It specifies whether paper page references to all printed diagrams and documents should be included in the Organizer view listing.

After initial text document

This toggle button is only available in the table of contents Print Setup dialog. It specifies whether the table of contents should be printed after a plain text document placed first among the diagrams and documents that are to be printed. The initial text document then acts as a title page before the table of contents.

Only chapters in TOC

This toggle button is only available in the table of contents Print Setup dialog. It specifies whether only the chapters in the Organizer view should be included in the table of contents, or if all diagrams and documents also should be included.

Document burst page

This toggle button is only available in the Organizer Print TTCN Setup dialog. If the toggle is on, a document burst page will be printed. The burst page is an unnumbered cover page for the TTCN document, where the name of the test suite and the print date are printed.

Part burst page

This toggle button is only available in the Organizer Print TTCN Setup dialog. If the toggle is on, part burst pages will be printed. The part burst pages are unnumbered cover pages, that separate the different parts of a TTCN document. The name of the part, the test suite and the print date, are printed on each part burst page.

Double sided

This toggle button is only available in the Organizer Print TTCN Setup dialog. If the toggle is on, the TTCN document will be printed with a page format suitable for a double-sided copying. The appearance is controlled by resources and can therefore be changed (see the file Itex.sample in the TTCN Suite installation directory).


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