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In DP+ have 2 documents A4 and A5, printing the latter is successful, then going to the A4 document to print shows page as A5, going to Page Options is still A4, thus ignoring the selection, change Printer to A4 or deleting the A5 displays correctly, is this normal?
what xara prints is not determined by selection
the program prints what is on the print page area [the white box surrounded by the gray pasteboard]
that white box will be the size as set in page options
the settings of your printer itself will affect the result, but do not change the xara settings
does that help ?
That is what I expected and knew, I have done 40 years of printing:-) not on printer that has A5 and A4 trays.
As I said when I print my A5 document on A5 paper its OK
When I go to the A4 Document the white area is A5 size the Page Options are A4 it is ignoring that setting.
Delete the A5 document and page reverts to A4.
I am not in the office so cannot take a screen image.
There are PAGE OPTIONS and PRINTER OPTIONS.
As handrawn said, the page options set your DRAWING SIZE, printer options set the PRINT SIZE. If the last thing you printed was A5, then it will default to A5, you need to set the printer itself to A4
This has nothing to do with printing only page displays.
I know how to set up PAGE OPTIONS and PRINTER OPTIONS have taught others as sold/supported BBC/Acorn computers for many years.
I usually work on one size only this time was doing a A4 and A5 documents, printed the latter went back to the A4 page was A5 even though the Page Options were A4 the contents overflowed they did not before, I checked many times, then it changed to the correct size as I deleted the A5 I could see as it was happening.
Peter
the only time I can think of where the page area is A5 and the page options shows A4 is
either:
if the 'apply' button has not been pressed on the page options dialog box to confirm the change
or:
you have a document where 'all pages in document the same' has been unticked [lower down on the page options dialog]... which enables you to have pages in the same document of different sizes, such that although your object may be on an A5 page if your mouse is focused on an A4 page that is what the page options dialog will show...
it is not clear what you did here - 'deleted the A5' in what way ? - if you deleted an A5 page for example, it may have reverted to an A4 one in the second case above?Quote:
then it changed to the correct size as I deleted the A5 I could see as it was happening.
I don't think you are following what I said ...
FORGET printing. The Xara desktop display shows ON SCREEN the print boundary as it's set (or was set last) in the PRINTER OPTIONS regardless of the PAGE OPTIONS. Even if you don't print, resetting the printer will change the ON SCREEN display to the current printer settings.
I regularly print to a 36" wide plotter, and if that was the last output device used, then a LETTER sized document will still show a 36" wide print boundary.
I think what you are saying in post#1 IS normal behaviour.
that's true Keith - when I said:
I was not thinking of print boundary, just the print page areaQuote:
the settings of your printer itself will affect the result, but do not change the xara settings
Great thread. I do a newsletter in standard A4. I’ll try to duplicate the problem. Xara sometimes has a tendency to accept changes as defaults.
Peter, it’s worth opening a ticket wi them.
I have just joined the thread again since my last post, I did some testing in the office today and found it is the print borders that cause the problem deleted in the A4 document and it displayed correctly.
If I had read the follow ups after my last posting it would have prompted me and saved some time.
Thank you all for helping now on to my next problem:-(
Peter
you are welcome ;)