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You can create a Layout Image across multiple sheets of paper and print to desktop and large scale printer/plotters on sheet paper.<br/>
A Layout Image can be printed:
* directly from Valentina<br/>
* to a single sheet of paper if the paper is large enough to hold the Layout image<br/>
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=== Select the Layout Image background size ===
The background
The
The background size width must be wide enough to hold your biggest pattern piece, otherwise this error message appears: "Several workpieces left not arranged, but none of them match for paper."<br/>
** Best for printing multisheet Layout Images. Multisheets are displayed in the righthand column of Layout Mode. (Example: Your multisheet Layout Image is A0 size. You select '''File/Layout/Print''' to print to your plotter which uses '''A0''' paper.)<br/>
▲The Layout Image's background can be bigger than the size of the paper in your printer.
* Roll paper size:
** Best option for saving and printing as tiled PDFs. (Example: Your singlesheet Layout Image uses 24" roll size. You select '''File/Layout/Print as Tiled PDF''' to print to your desktop printer which uses '''Letter''' paper.)
* Custom paper size:
** Good option for saving and printing as tiled PDFs but requires time to find best width and length.
=== Review Dialog options ===
Select the correct printer to define corresponding margins in the Layout Image.
Select 'Unite pages if possible' to convert multisheet Layout Images into single sheet Layout Images. Multisheet Layout Images cannot be saved and printed as tiled PDFs
Select 'Autocrop unused length' to reduce blank pages in tiled PDFs.
ut Image as a tiled PDF, and your Layout Image is generated across multiple sheets as shown in the righthand column of Layout Mode, then check the dialog option box to <br/>
If there is extra room at the bottom of your Layout Image as shown in the righthand column of Layout Mode, then you can check the dialog option box to 'Autocrop unused length'.
== Print a Layout Image==
If your single or multisheet Layout Image size matches your printer paper: Select '''File/Layout/Print'''
If your single sheet Layout Image size is too big for your printer paper: Select '''File/Layout/Print as Tiled PDF''' (not for multisheet Layout Images)
▲The background paper size is *NOT USUALLY* the paper size you will print on. <br/>
▲If you select a roll paper size:
▲ # The width will be the roll paper size
▲ # Begin with width and length larger than you need and reduce.
== Save a Layout Image ==
===Save as Tiled PDF===
When you read or print this tiled PDF, your application must import the PDF at 96ppi and the 'Scale to Fit' print option should be de-selected.
===For all other saving and exporting===
Use '''File/Layout/Export''' to save and export the Layout Image to a '''raster''' (.png, .jpeg) or '''vector''' (.pdf, .hpgl, .eps, .ps, .svg, .dxf) file format.<br/>
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