Pages

To help you to design EMF-based PDF, EMF, and TIFF output, Form Editor uses a page model that enables you to create designs for single-page outputs and multipage outputs. This flexibility enables your sheet design to cater for different input data scenarios.

Note

Pages are relevant to EMF-based output only.

First, Middle, Last and Single Page

Each sheet has a corresponding First, Middle, Last and Single page for formatting output. These pages can contain overlays defining the graphical look of the form, rearranges representing the actual printed data, fixed texts and scripts.

You can access the page setup of each one by right-clicking the tab and choosing the menu item Paper format.

In the Paper Format dialog, you can define a pre-defined paper format or enter a custom width and height in millimetres. The page orientation can also be changed between Portrait or Landscape styles.

The four different page layouts are used to handle forms of varying length. If the conditional area only fills one page, then the Single page layout is used. If the data fills two conditional areas, then the First and Last page layouts are used. For jobs filling more than two conditional areas the First, Middle and Last layouts are used. This provides true flexibility in designing your output pages.

A default reference printer is defined automatically when adding a new form/sheet. The sheet retrieves the following settings from the printer driver used as a reference printer:

• Margins

• Form names (supported paper size)

• Fonts (printer specific fonts)

Lasernet automatically creates a Lasernet Reference Printer as a Windows printer with a Lasernet EMF driver attached.

Note

The Lasernet Reference Printer works for Lasernet in the same way as the Default Printer in Windows works for other Windows applications when retrieving settings.