You can modify the document's appearance before printing to ensure that the end result (the printed document) appears as desired. You can modify properties such as orientation, scaling, margins, borders, overflow, and section display. Horizontal overflow specifies whether controls that extend beyond the width of a single page are printed on the next sheet of paper (the default setting) or on the same page. For more information, see Controlling horizontal overflow.
Note: Each layout of a multi-layout document can have different page setup options. For more information on multi-layout documents, see Creating multi-layout documents.
Open the document in Design or Editable Mode.
If the document contains multiple layouts, click the tab of the layout whose printing options you want to modify.
From the Home menu, select Page Setup. The Properties dialog box opens.
From the left, select Page.
To change the paper size, select the
new size, such as Letter or Legal, from the Paper
Size drop-down list.
Note: Changing this property alters the values
for both Width and Height.
You can change the Width
or Height of the page.
Note: The Width and Height settings take priority over the Paper Size
setting. That is, if you increase one of them beyond the Paper Size
setting, Paper
Size and Orientation
automatically adjust accordingly.
You can change the paper Orientation
from Portrait (the default) to
Landscape.
Note: Changing the Orientation alters the values for both Width and Height.
By default, the document is scaled to 100% (full size). You can change this by doing one of the following:
To increase or decrease the scale of the document, select Adjust to and then enter the scale percentage.
To scale
the document to a specific number of pages, select the Fit
to option. You can then set both the number of pages wide, for
horizontal scaling, and tall, for vertical scaling.
Note: The
Fit to option ensures that the
document fits within the parameters, but it does not increase the size
of the document. If the document is already smaller than the set width
and height, it will not become expanded.
To apply the scaling to the Page Header and Footer sections, select the Scale page header/footer check box. If the check box is cleared (the default), the contents of the Page Header and Footer sections are printed at the size specified in the Property List, regardless of the scaling percentage applied to the rest of the document.
Horizontal
fit specifies how to handle overflow content that does not fit
on a single horizontal page. Horizontal fit specifies whether controls
that extend beyond the width of a single page are printed on the next
sheet of paper or on the same page. In other words, the setting determines
whether controls are printed left to right on multiple pages or immediately
below each other on the same page.
By default, the overflow is printed
on the next page. To print the overflow on the same page, select Below
from the Overflow drop-down list. For more information on horizontal
fit, see
Controlling horizontal
overflow.
To define the page margins, do the following:
From the left, click Margins.
To change the distance between the top of the page and the top of the document or the top of the border, enter the new measurement in Top.
To change the distance between the bottom of the page and the bottom of the document or the bottom of the border, enter the new measurement in Bottom.
To change the distance between the left side of the page and the left side of the document or the left edge of the border, enter the new measurement in Left.
To change the distance between the right side of the page and the right side of the document or the right edge of the border, enter the new measurement in Right.
When all your changes are complete, click OK to apply the changes and return to the document.
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