Printing

There are two ways to print in Manifold:

Print using a Layout - When a Layout is open and has the focus we can choose File - Print to print the layout. Ctrl-P is a shortcut for printing in layouts. See the Layouts topic for details on creating layouts and working with them.

Print using a Print Preview - When an open visual window has the focus, the File - Print Preview command creates a virtual layout with a single frame in it that contains the component. We can then choose File - Print to print. The virtual layout used in a print preview disappears when we close the print preview. If we make changes to that virtual layout and want to save it as a real Layout, that is easy to do by choosing Edit - Save as Layout.

See Also

Getting Started

User Interface Basics

File - Page Setup

File - Print Preview

Example: Layout Properties - Editing properties which appear in the mfd_meta table for a layout changes the content of that layout. We can exploit that effect to create standardized layouts which are then re-cycled for different content.