Layout Editor and Printing

Introduction

To access the Layout Editor and Printing functions click the button marked Layout that you will find at the bottom of the screen next to the Studio button.

Layout Editor

The Layout Editor screen looks like the screen-grab below.

The left-hand panel now contains the layout and print parameters. The artwork is on the Canvas and the Zoom Controller is still available.

Note: If you want to return to the Studio Editor to do some more work, just click on the Studio button at the bottom of the screen - when you return to Layout all the settings you made to the Layout parameters will not have changed.

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Printing requires you to invest a bit of time up front thinking about what it is you want, so the following list may help you:

• Is the paper of the right size and quality you want?

• What is the orientation of your artwork versus the orientation of the paper in the printer’s paper tray i.e. do you need to rotate your artwork or do you need to rotate the paper?

• If you intend to make a card with one-fold and your artwork is landscape, then you will probably want to print on paper with a portrait orientation and vice versa. If however you intend to make a card with two-folds and your artwork is landscape, then you will probably want to print on paper with a landscape orientation.

The following steps are a suggested workflow for Layout and Printing:

Step 1: Go to the File menu (in the top left-hand corner of your screen) and click on the Page Setup option.

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Step 2: This opens the Page Setup dialogue box. From the drop-down menu on the left, choose the printer you intend to print to and then click the Printer Setup button on the right.

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Step 3: If you want to add a white border around your artwork, you can reduce the size of the image in 10% steps from 100% down to 50%. To do this, go to the drop-down menu to the right of the Image heading and choose a percentage. In the screen-grab below the image has been reduced to 80%.

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Step 4 for PC: To print your artwork, click the File menu again and then click the Print option. The dialogue box pictured in the screen-grab below will open. Click Print and use your printer’s dialogue box to commit your artwork to paper.

Note: ArtMasterPro supports copy and paste, so you can print via another software application if you choose.

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Step 4 for Mac: To print your artwork, click the File menu again and then click the Page Setup option again. The dialogue box pictured in the screen below will open.

Click the Settings menu and select the Print & Fax Preferences option. The dialogue box pictured in the screen-grab below will open.

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Select the printer you wish to print to, and the paper size, and then click print to commit your artwork to paper.

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