Layout Mode

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.
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE you select a background size for the Layout Image from pre-defined sheet paper, roll paper, or you can create a custom size.
The background size is NOT USUALLY the paper size in your printer's paper tray.
The background size must be able to contain your largest pattern piece. If the paper size isn't long enough to contain all your pattern pieces, then the Layout Image will contain multiple sheets to hold all pattern pieces. If the background size is larger than your printer paper, then you can print or save it as a tiled PDF.

A Layout Image can be printed:

directly from Valentina
to a single sheet of paper if the paper is large enough to hold the Layout image
across multiple sheets of paper:
- if the single sheet Layout Image is larger than your printer's paper (for tiled PDFs)
- if the multisheet Layout Image is equal to or smaller than your printer paper

Create a Layout Image

Select the Layout Image background size

Select a Layout Image background size from the paper sizes or create a custom paper size.
The background size is not required to equal the paper size you will print on,
The background paper size must be bigger than the size of the paper in your printer if you will print as tiled PDF.
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."

Sheet paper size:
- 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.)
Roll paper size:
- The width will be the roll paper size, the length will adjust as needed
- 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.
- Begin with width and length larger than you need and reduce to find best size

Review Dialog options

Select your printer to reserve the correct border widths for printer margins Select Unite pages if possible to convert a multisheet Layout Image into a single sheet Layout Image. Select Autocrop unused length to reduce blank space in tiled PDFs.

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)

Save a Layout Image

Save as Tiled PDF

Select File/Layout/Save as Tiled PDF to save your Layout Image as a 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.