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Disclaimer
AVEVA Instrumentation provides instrument sizing calculations for estimation purposes only, end users of the
software should not rely on the calculations produced by the software for design purposes. End users should seek
the advice of certified equipment suppliers prior to specifying or purchasing equipment.
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Contents Page
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1
Guide Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:2
Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Scale Print Preview by Entering a Zoom Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Scale Print Preview by Specifying Width in Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
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Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Zoom Print Preview In or Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Zoom Print Preview by Entering a Zoom Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Zoom Print Preview to Show Whole Pages or Fit Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
Show Two or More Pages in Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:1
Exporting from Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:1
PDF-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:2
HTML-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:3
MHT-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:4
RTF-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:5
XLS-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:6
CSV-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:7
TXT-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:7
Image-Specific Export Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:8
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Introduction
1 Introduction
Print Preview describes the capabilities provided by the Print Preview form:
File Management
• Save a Print Preview to a File
• Load a Print Preview from a File
Printing and Page Setup
• Print a Document via the Print Dialog
• Print a Document Using Default Settings
• Change Printing Settings via the Page Setup Dialog
• Specify Page Margins in Print Preview
Headers and Footers
• Insert Page Header and Page Footer into Printed Documents
• Insert Page Numbers into Printed Documents
• Insert Date and Time into Printed Documents
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Introduction
File Management
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Scaling
Zooming
Exporting
Passing Parameters
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File Management
2 File Management
To save a document to the file, click Save on the toolbar, or press CTRL+S.
On the selected Save As window, locate a folder to store your file, enter the document's
name and click Save.
The document will be saved with the .prnx file extension and this extension will be added to
the file name even if the user enters another one.
Note: If the user opens a document which was previously saved to the hard drive, it is
impossible to change its page settings (e.g. page size, orientation, margins, etc.). So,
the Page Setup and the Scale options will be disabled.
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File Management
Note: If the user opens a document previously saved to the hard drive, it is impossible to
change its page settings (e.g. page size, orientation, margins, etc.). So, the Page
Setup and Scale options will be disabled.
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Printing and Page Setup
Note: To print a document whose margins are outside of the printable area, a warning
message will be displayed. Click Yes to print the document anyway, only if the printer
supports the specified page margins.
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Note: To print a document whose margins are outside of the printable area, a warning
message will be displayed. Click Yes to print the document anyway, only if the printer
supports the specified page margins.
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Printing and Page Setup
Note: If working with a document that was loaded from file, it is impossible to change its
page settings (e.g. page size, orientation, margins, etc.).
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Headers and Footers
Specify header and footer content using the appropriate text boxes, depending on the
required alignment.
If needed, the user can also adjust vertical alignment and font settings.
Click OK to save changes and close the window.
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Headers and Footers
• To display the page number out of the total number of pages, click Page # of Pages #
.
When one of these options is clicked, the window adds an alias within square brackets at
the current cursor position. The user can surround this alias with any text you like. If page
numbers are no longer needed in the document, delete this alias.
Click OK to save changes and close the window.
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Headers and Footers
Note: If the Image icon is disabled, then logo insertion is not supported by your software
vendor.
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Scaling
5 Scaling
Note: If working with a document loaded from file, scaling cannot be used.
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Zooming
6 Zooming
• To zoom out of a document, click Zoom Out on the toolbar, or press CTRL+MINUS
SIGN.
To zoom in or out of a document, hold down CTRL and rotate the mouse wheel.
Use the Magnifier Tool to switch between 100% and "fit whole page" views. Click
anywhere in the document, to toggle views.
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To preview more pages simultaneously, refer to the Show Two or More Pages in Print
Preview topic.
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Zooming
When the required number of pages has been selected, click the popup window to close it
and apply changes to the document view.
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View and Navigate
Then, after the user clicks a document's page, the mouse pointer is changed from to
. Drag the mouse pointer to scroll the document.
To show or hide the document map, click Document Map on the toolbar.
Go to a Specific Bookmark
To go to the specific bookmark, click it in the Document Map, and the appropriate text will be
highlighted in the document.
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In this window, the user can input the text to find, and specify whether to match case or the
whole word during the search, or set the search direction.
To start searching, or search again, click Find Next or press ENTER.
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View and Navigate
This allows the user to preserve an entire page view, whether the preview window is
resized, a document is scrolled or a multiple page view mode is choosen.
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Watermark and Background
Input the required text, or choose one from the provided options. If required, define other
text properties, such as direction, color, font, size, transparency, etc.
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Watermark and Background
Load the image and customise its properties, such as size mode, horizontal and vertical
alignment, tiling, transparency, etc.
Separate page numbers with commas, or specify page ranges using a dash.
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Exporting
9 Exporting
Then, the user will be prompted to define format-specific options. See corresponding help
topics in this documentation for details, e.g. PDF-Specific Export Options.
Once exporting options have been specified, the Save As window appears, allowing a file
name to be entered. Then, the following message will be displayed.
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Exporting
• On the toolbar, click the arrow near the Send via E-Mail .
• On the File menu, choose the Send via E-Mail item.
Choose the required format in the displayed list.
Then, the user will be prompted to define format-specific options. See corresponding help
topics in this documentation for details, e.g. PDF-Specific Export Options.
Once exporting options have been specified, the Save As window appears, allowing a file
name to be entered.
Finally, the created document will be attached to a new empty message, created in the
default mail program.
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Exporting
• Page range
Define the pages which will be included in the complete file. Separate the pages with a
comma, set a range of pages with a dash.
• Don't embed these fonts
Define the fonts not to be embedded in the complete file, to get a smaller file size.
Separate the fonts with a semicolon.
• Images quality
Choose the required document's image quality level. The higher the quality, the bigger
the file, and vice versa.
• Compressed
Check this to enable compression.
• Show print dialog on open
Check this, if desired.
• The Application, Author, Keywords, Subject, and Title fields can be filled.
See Also
Exporting from Print Preview.
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• Export mode
The following modes are available.
• The Single file mode allows export of a document to a single file, without
preserving the page-by-page breakdown.
• The Single file page-by-page mode allows export of a document to a single file,
while preserving page-by-page breakdown. In this mode, the Page range, Page
border color and Page border width options are available.
• The Different files mode allows export of a document to multiple files, one for each
document page. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• Page range
Specify the pages which will be included in the resulting file. Separate page numbers
with commas; set page ranges using hyphens.
• Page border color
Choose the color for the page border from the available palettes.
• Page border width
Define the page border width.
• Title
Enter the required document title.
• Character set
Define the character set for your HTML document.
• Also, using the appropriate check box, an option whether to remove carriage returns.
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• Export mode
Choose one from the available modes to export a document.
• The Single file mode allows export of a document to a single file, without dividing it
into pages.
• The Single file page-by-page mode allows export of a document to a single file,
divided into pages. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• The Different files mode allows export of a document to multiple files, one for each
document page. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• Page range
Define the pages which will be included in the result. Separate page numbers with
commas; set page ranges using hyphens.
• Page border color
Choose the color for the page borders from the available palettes.
• Page border width
Define the width of page borders.
• Title
Enter the required document title.
• Character set
Define the character set, which will be used in the exported document.
• Also, using the appropriate check box, an option whether to remove carriage returns.
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• Export mode
Choose one from the available modes to export a document.
• The Single file mode allows export of a document to a single file, without dividing it
into pages.
• The Single file page-by-page mode allows export of a document to a single file,
divided into pages. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• The Different files mode allows export of a document to multiple files, one for each
document page. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• Page range
Define the pages which will be included in the result. Separate page numbers with
commas, set page ranges using hyphens.
• Also, using the appropriate check box, the user can choose whether the exported
document should include watermarks (if they exist).
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• Text separator
Define a text separator (comma by default).
• Encoding
Define the encoding used in the exported document.
• The user can also specify whether to quote strings with separators.
• Text separator
Define separator text (TAB by default).
• Encoding
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• Image format
Choose one from the available image formats to export a document: BMP, EMF, WMF,
GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF.
• Resolution (dpi)
Define the required image resolution.
• Export mode
Choose one from the available modes to export a document.
• The Single file mode allows export of a document to a single file, without dividing
the output into pages.
• The Single file page-by-page mode allows export of a document to a single file,
divided into pages. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• The Different files mode allows export of a document to multiple files, one for each
document page. In this mode, the Page range, Page border color and Page
border width options are available.
• Page range
Defines the pages which will be included in the result. Separate page numbers with
commas; set page ranges using hyphens.
• Page border color
Specifies page border color.
• Page border width
Sets page border width.
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10 Passing Parameters
Some documents or reports allow the user to control data display, and what data is to be
displayed by specifying parameter values.
To show the Parameters window, click Parameters on the main toolbar. A window
allowing the user to change parameter values will be displayed.
Enter the required values and click Submit. To reset settings, click Reset.
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Index
File Management
Load from a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 R
Save to a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1 Remove a Watermark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:3
H S
Headers and Footers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:1 Scale by Entering Zoom Factor . . . . . . . 5:1
Scaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
I Search Specific Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
Specify Page Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Introduction to Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . 1:1 Specify Width in Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:1
Switch Display Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:2
N
Navigate
U
Using the Hand Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
V
Viewing and Navigating . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:1
W
Watermark and Background . . . . . . . . . . 8:1
Z
Zooming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Entering a Zoom Factor . . . . . . . . . . 6:1
Two or More Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:2
Whole Pages or Fit Content . . . . . . . 6:2
Zoom In or Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:1