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Printing Reports

The command Print Report from the menu File opens the Print Report dialog offering options for printing calculation results and object data using a tabulated format.

Dialog Print Report

Dialog options

Printer

Select via the button "Setup" from the list of installed printers (and the paper size and the format).

Margins

The paper size can be defined either by the page margins and/or the height and/or the width. The page's margins (Top/Bottom and Left/Right) is the distance from limits of the printing area of the printer plus the spacing specified in the printing menu. The height is measured from the margin defined for top, the width from the margin defined for left.

Example: top margin = 20 mm, height = 200 mm, paper size 220 mm.

Note

The options "Top/Height" and "Left/Width" enable to use printers with paper rolls specifying a printing width and height being independent from a real paper format and being. So, in projects extending in one direction mainly (e.g. with a long road section), other than the DIN standard paper size formats can be defined (see Section).

Text Header/Footer

For both, header and footer, individual text can be entered here. The text will appear on each page. All keywords for printing are available (e.g. text font and size). Also bitmap files (e.g. a company logo) can be displayed by the keyword #(Bitmap).

Example 1: #(Font,,8) #(Datum), #Zeit

displays the actual date and time using the selected font with size 8 pt.

Example 2: #(Text,Projekt)

the text entered on the menu Table|Library|Text Blocks (see Text Blocks) for the text block name "Project" is printed on each page.

Example 3: #(Tabs,150)#(Tab)Seite #(Seite)

displays at the TAB position 15 cm from the left page margin, the word "page" followed by the page number.

Print

The file name of the presently selected template file is displayed being used by CadnaA to configure the print-out's design. The delivered template files can be modified by using keywords and saved with a new name or generated from scratch. Upon a new installation of CadnaA the delivered template files may be overwritten at an installation.

  • button "Select": Via this button a template file for print is selected. The template has the file extension TXT. As template files for export have the same extension, it is useful to store both types of template files separately.
  • button "Edit": Clicking this button enables to edit the presently selected template file and to save it with a new name.
  • All: With this option activated, the the entire report as specified by the selected template file will be printed via the selected printer or written to a file.
  • Selected Paragraphs: With this option activated, on those paragraphs highlighted in the list by a mouse click will be printed. Clicking with the SHIFT-key pressed enables to select a range of paragraphs, clicking holding the CTRL-key pressed to select individual paragraphs.

Note

The entire text length of all paragraph labels in this list is limited to 255 characters.

Other

  • Print Quality: The available print quality options depend on the selected printer. Select a quality from the list box.
  • Copies: number of copies to be printed
  • Print to File: When this option is activated the printing data will be saved to a file. After clicking OK you will be prompted for a file name.

Button "Print"

starts printing via the selected printer

Button "Preview"

The dialog Print Preview is opened with full-page display (see Print Preview).