Defining Printer Setting Preferences for Altium Designer
Created: March 23, 2016 | Updated: April 11, 2017
| Applies to versions: 16.1, 17.0 and 17.1
Now reading version 17.0. For the latest, read: Defining Printer Setting Preferences for Altium Designer for version 21
The System - Printer Settings page of the Preferences dialog
Summary
The System – Printer Settings page of the Preferences dialog allows the user to customize page sizes for exported PDF documents.
Access
This page is accessed by clicking Printer Settings under the System folder in the main Preferences dialog (DXP » Preferences).
Options/Controls
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Custom page sizes for exporting to PDF
- Title - the name of the page size.
- Width - the width of the page size.
- Height - the height of the page size.
- Add - click to add a size to the main list. Choices include:
- ARCH A
- ARCH B
- ARCH C
- ARCH D
- ARCH E
- ARCH E1
- C5 Envelope (162 x 229 mm)
- DL Envelope (110 x 220 mm)
- Folio (8.5 x 13 in)
- JIS B1
- JIS B2
- JIS B3
- JIS B4
- JIS B5
- Ledger (17 x 11 in)
- Monarch Envelope (3.87 x 7.5 in)
- No. 10 Envelope (4.125 x 9.5 in)
- Note (7.5 x 10 in)
- Statement (5.5 x 8.5 in)
- Custom - click this choice to add a new page title and size.
- Edit Page - click to open the Edit Page dialog in which you can customize the title, and size of the selected page size.
- Remove - click to remove the selected page size from the list.