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== Overview: What's a Layout Image? ===
A Layout Image contains the final version of your selected pattern pieces as they appear in Details Mode. It does not include internal hatch marks, points, or point labels.<br/>
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If the background size is larger than your printer paper, then you can print or save it as a tiled PDF.
Single sheet Layout Images can be saved and printed '''as Tiled PDF''' to paper sheets which are '''smaller than''' the Layout Image background size.<br/>
Single and multisheet Layout Images can be printed to paper sheets or roll papers which are '''equal to or larger than''' the Layout Image background size.<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/>
* across multiple sheets of paper by two methods: <br/>
** if the single sheet Layout Image is larger than your printer's paper (for tiled PDFs)
** The Layout Image is created across multiple sheets, because the paper size can contain the largest pattern piece but can't contain all pattern pieces.<br/>
** Theif the multisheet Layout Image is createdequal asto aor single sheet and is largersmaller than your printer's paper. '''File/Layout/Print as Tiled PDF''' will print the Layout Image across multiple paper sheets.<br/>
== Create a Layout Image ==
=== Review Dialog options ===
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Select '''Unite pages if possible''' to convert a multisheet Layout ImagesImage into a single sheet Layout ImagesImage. Multisheet Layout Images cannot be saved and printed as tiled PDFs
Select '''Autocrop unused length''' to reduce blank pagesspace 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 (or is smaller than) 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)
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