Set Print Properties
Use the Print pane to define and print the printable area for each page in your active view. The print preview automatically updates after each change of any print parameter. See Basic and Advanced Print Modes in Printing and Presentation for Views and Gantt Charts.
Ways to access
To choose between printing and creating a presentation, select Tools > Options > Functions > Printing mode. Choose Classic Printing.
then
Select File > Print in the main menu.
Right-click in a time-distance cell or Gantt chart cell, and select Print in the context menu
Click the Print icon on the main toolbar.
The Print dialog lays over the Tilos Explorer.
Options
View Scaling
The active view is automatically scaled (zoomed) so it is entirely visible within the program window; if the page size is bigger than the view, the page is scaled down to the view.
Pagination
By default, blue lines are shown on top of the view, denoting the selected page size on top of the view. Pagination is calculated based on the page size, the fixed internal printer margins, and the extra user-defined margins. Larger margin values may lead to stretched page sizes. Adjust settings to make pagination fit your data as desired.
Note: Pagination lines are not shown on print previews of Gantt charts.
Print - Summarizes the print job based on current settings, including the view size, the paper size, and how the view is printed to paper including zoom and number of pages used.
Printer - Confirm the selected printer.
Note: Tilos uses its own page size and orientation options. Page size selections from the Windows printer dialog are not transported to the Tilos Print dialog. Do not select the size and orientation in the Windows printer dialog, but in the Tilos Print dialog. Changing the printer will keep the print options (e.g. size and orientation) as defined in the Tilos Print dialog. The last printer used is stored and will be used as long as no other printer is selected. This is independent of the Windows default printer. However, if you start the printing process and the stored printer cannot be found on this system, then the Windows default printer is used for printing.
Select Printer - Select a new printer for the job. This is the only place in Tilos where the printer can be specified.
Printer page size - Select a page size based on the selected printer. The selection will update the width and height values below.
Set "Page Size' to 'View size' - Disable the width and height value for editing, and calculate the paper size automatically based on the view size (always fits to a single piece of paper). The orientation also is calculated, so that option is disabled.
Width and Height - Enter the desired page size. Selecting the Standard page size from the printer will update these values. If you want to enter the page sizes in inches, change this in Dialog - Options - Project. Once you have changed these values and you enter a standard page size, the name of the page size will not be updated.
Portrait/Landscape - Portrait is the default setting. The Landscape option rotates the view by 90 degrees. Using a roll plotter, the width is usually 90 cm; the height is theoretically unlimited by the roll. We recommend setting the width to a small value and the height to a larger value when using Landscape orientation, so the width is always the small value.
Scaling - Apply a zoom factor to the view in order to fit the view to the page size. The zoom works in the same way as on the screen; it just makes everything bigger or smaller.
View size (100%) - Print in the same size as shown on screen at a 100% view zoom.
Print to one page - In this mode, the view is scaled to fit on one page. The zoom factor is defined by the smallest values of page width/view width or page height/view height. Therefore, an empty area will be left on one of the page borders; the view proportions are the same as the page proportions.
Select zoom - Enter a zoom factor by which the view is scaled during the printing process.
Print to n x m pages - Specify the number of pages to print. The first value is applied for horizontal and the second for vertical. A zoom is calculated. Besides generating multiple pages, this works in the same way as Print to one page.
Margins - Add extra user-defined margins around the border of the view. This margin reduces the available page size.
Note: These margins are in addition to the 'printable area' margins dictated by the limits of the printer hardware.
Gantt chart-specific settings
See Print a Gantt Chart.
Print - Start the print job of the current view, close the dialog, hide pagination lines, and return to the previous zoom level.
Close - Close the dialog without saving values, hide pagination lines, and return to the previous zoom level.