You can – as described above – subdivide a document page with tiling frames into printer pages. The routine work of placing tiling frames on the page (and also removing them) can be handled by Calamus automatically. This function serves to do this. When you click on the relevant icon, an associated dialog box appears:
The values at the top of the dialog box show the current size of
the Calamus document page (Page size
) and the maximum printable
area the currently chosen printer can produce. The field below shows
you how many page tiles you need with the currently set overhangs and
orientation. The Calculate
button allows you to see the results
of any changes in these values.
The resulting tiles can be aligned automatically or manually. You
will find additional information for printer settings under
Print
in the File menu.
Below this you can determine how much the tiles should overlap. The overhang permits clean joins between the various page tiles. The effect after printing is similar to that found in car atlases: The edge areas will be printed on several pages. The Horizontal and Vertical overlaps determine how much page portions lying next to and above each other respectively should overlap.
The radio buttons below this allow you to choose Landscape
or Portrait
orientation for the tiles.
The next field allows you to create or delete automatic tiles on a specified range of pages. The final radio buttons let you decide whether or not to delete existing tiles before creating new ones. Normally you will want to delete the old page tiles when creating new tiles automatically, but in special cases you may prefer to keep them.
Click on the Create
button at the bottom of the dialog to
generate the tiles.
To remove tiles, click on the Delete
button. All tiles in
the range of pages specified will be deleted.
