Atlantis latest beta.
Congratulations on your efforts. Very nice and useful new additions to the program.
I tried yesterday the booklet function of Atlantis. It worked very well. The only problem I found was the size of the printout, very small, hard to read. Is there a way to increase the size? I selected 2 pages per sheet.
Thanks,
admin wrote:
You could increase font size used in your document. There is no other way.
Thanks for your reply. Your method worked. Mind you it leaves a fairly big white margin at the bottom of the printout.Is it possible to add (in a future version) more control over the margins and font size from the print menu? It would be nice but I dont know how much work this feature would demand.
Well, I am not sure that the "Print" dialog is a proper place for making such changes to your document. Atlantis is a WYSIWYG word processor. You could easily tell how your document would look printed on paper, even without performing actual printing.
If font size in Atlantis is too small, it probably will be too small when your print your document. The same regarding page margins.
When printed with this values, the print size decreases to about size 10 and pushes the text to the top leaving a fairly big space at the bottom. I'm not sure how this works but shouldn't it maintain the same proportions when a booklet it's printed?
When printed with this values, the print size decreases to about size 10 and pushes the text to the top leaving a fairly big space at the bottom. I'm not sure how this works but shouldn't it maintain the same proportions when a booklet it's printed?
Ed.
Hi, Eduardo
Could you please measure up the bottom margin as it got printed?
How much was it? 0.9"? More?
Thanks.
Cheers,
Robert
Please make sure that the page size of your document (as specified in the "File | Page Settings" dialog) matches the actual paper size.
If you want to use paper sheets of a size that does not match the document page size, for example, if you want to print an A4 document to paper sheets of the Letter format, you should print your document with scaling to the paper format of the sheets placed in the input tray of your printer. The "File | Print" dialog includes the "Zoom | Scale to paper size" box.
The paper size is the standard 8 1/2x11;
The document size is set accordingly;
I scaled to the paper size
All the results were the same: very small print, big margin at the bottom.
Unfortunately my kids ruler is only in centimeters. I measured the empty space (from the last line of text to the bottom) to have about 5 1/2 cm. The top,right and left margins are all OK.
I'm using a Brother HL-660 printer.
The paper size is the standard 8 1/2x11;
The document size is set accordingly;
I scaled to the paper size
All the results were the same: very small print, big margin at the bottom.
Unfortunately my kids ruler is only in centimeters. I measured the empty space (from the last line of text to the bottom) to have about 5 1/2 cm. The top,right and left margins are all OK.
I'm using a Brother HL-660 printer.
Regards,
Ed.
Hi, Ed
Which default measurement unit have you got
a) in Atlantis?
b) in your printer driver software?
c) in Windows?
I tested also with my "oldie", an Epson EPL 7000 with the same results. Could you please tell me what measurements you have on your page settings? For example, the distance from the edge of Footer and Header? Page borders? Can you read your printout? In order for my output to be readable I have to increase the font from 12 to 20, wich will affect the number of pages to be printed. Not a good solution. Printer, page and windows are configure to the standard US Letter size: 8.5x11.
Normally if you print a document in Atlantis formatted with a 10pts-font with 4 or even 8 pages per sheet side on an ordinary ink or laser jet printer, this document should be still readable.
Could you please tell me what measurements you have on your page settings?
This depends on your settings (Tools | Options > General > Measurement system).
I scalled to 8.5x11
Again, there is no need to use scaling if the document page size and the size of paper sheets match. The "File | Print > Scale to paper size" box includes "No Scaling".
1) A sample document which prints wrongly as booklet on your system.
2) Complete details (screen captures if possible) of your printer dialog settings and those on the Atlantis Print dialog too (paper format, how many pages per sheet side, booklet mode, etc).
3) Also could you please save your current Atlantis settings by clicking the "Save settings to file..." button in the Atlantis "Tools | Options" dialog. When done, could you please attach the resulting "Atlantis.ini" to your email message?
