Printing hybrid documents

You may use Print command to print hybrid raster-vector documents. SuperEdit will be using your Windows printer. You may use the Control Panel – Printers to define the Default Printer and make sure that it is configured properly.

Open townmap.tcd composite background document (using SuperEdit’s Open ) and add parcels.tvd vector drawing. Alternatively, you may open only estate.tcd that contains references to both foreground drawing and background images, if you created one before.

Use Zoom Extents button to display the whole drawing or perform Zoom Window to any part of it that you want to print. Click the Print Preview button on the Main toolbar or choose the File - Print preview option. Choose the DWM Landscape option. You should see the picture as this below:

During Print Preview action, you are actually working with a special vector drawing that is referred to as printing template . It shows you the white paper area on the gray background, with light-gray margins. A special rectangle drawn in blue determines the so-called print window – an area on the paper where the document (or its part) is to be printed. By changing the print window rectangle you are defining the shape of the paper-space viewport to the real world contained in the document. Left click inside the print window area to select it for dragging. Now you may drag its red grips placed at its corners to correct its shape or use the DWM Transform – Move / Scale options to redefine the viewport size and position.

You can place any vector entities, like lines, rectangles, texts and other objects to define drawing’s description and title, form additional borders, or create drawing head. Printing templates – with separate contents for portrait and landscape orientation – may be created independently using the Template Editor utility; you may connect desired template to the SuperEdit session using the Print tab on SuperEdit Configuration dialog.

To define the viewport characteristics determining projection from document to paper space, click the Print Window button on the Main toolbar. Now you are moved back to the document space, with its part covered by shape of the print window. You can drag the whole window to correct its position over the document, or drag its corners to changing its size relative to the document, actually redefining the scale the document would be printed. Alternatively, use appropriate OTM options to redefine the scale numerically; you can observe that the relative size of the print window accommodates the changes of scale. Finally, choose the OTM Accept option to resume the Print Preview function with print window characteristics redefined.

If you need to use a specific printer that is not currently selected as the Windows default, click the OTM Print Setup option.

Press the OK button to accept the print configuration, and click Print buttonon Main toolbar to start printing.