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5. Working with PhotoLine

## 5.8 Printing

PhotoLine offers a very powerful printing feature. To adjust the settings, you have to select the function File/Print Options.

Now you can choose between:

- Normal
- Poster (to distribute a picture on several pages)
- Label (to print a picture repeatedly on a page)
- CD-Label
- Pages mode when printing documents with several pages

Size contains controls to adjust the size of the printed picture. The Zoom combo box is editable and allows to define a scaling. Another way is to edit Width and Height. Both are unit fields and allow to enter the size directly.

The Calibration field in the lower left allows to control brightness of the printing, for example if all printings of your printer are to dark, it allows you to make them brighter.

In order to rotate the printing by 90 degrees, you have to select Print Rotated.

The modes Normal and Poster allow you to set the position of the printed picture on the page. You have the choice to align it to the left, right, top, bottom or in the center, too.

If you are using the mode Label, you have to define the top and the left edge of the labels on your sheet. Additionally you have to adjust the distance between the rows and between the columns.

CD-Label allows you the choice between 2 and 3 labels an one sheet.

On the right side of the print options dialog, there is a preview. This is showing, how the printing will look like.

In the mode Normal you can move and scale the picture in the preview in order to change its position and size.

In the mode Poster you can change the position and size, too. Additionally it is possible to drag the picture over the right or bottom edge. In this case new pages will be automatically created ensuring that the whole picture is visible.

The modes Label and CD-Label are showing the outline of the labels in the preview with a green line. You can’t move the picture in these modes but you can scale it.

If the active document has more than one page, there is additional the mode Pages. Pages has several submodes:

- Multiple Pages
Several pages are printed on one sheet of paper. You can choose 2, 4, 8 or 16 pages per sheet.
- Booklet
Two pages are printed on one sheet. The pages are not printed in the order they were created, but in a way, so that the sheets can be folded and stitched, and the result will be a booklet. You should have a document with a page count, that is a multiple of 4, because 4 pages fit on one sheet: 2 pages on the front and two pages on the back. Otherwise your booklet will have empty pages at the end.
If you don‘t have a printer with duplex unit, you will have to print all the left pages first and then all the right pages on the back.
- Greeting Card
This mode is prints four pages on one sheet. The sheet can be folded and glued together afterwards, so that the result is a greeting card. The pages 1 and 4 will be the front and back, and the pages 2 and 3 will be the inside.

All changes you make in this dialog are saved to disk, if you are using the PLD file format. This way you don’t have to adjust your settings over and over again on printing.

By using Extended... the function Print Markers (see chapter 7.4.70) can be called.