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Merlin Project Tutorial - 02 Print

The document provides instructions for printing a project from Merlin Project. It details the print window and print preview options, including page layout, contents to print, headers and footers, borders, and adding a watermark. The options allow printing the entire project on one sheet of paper by adjusting the page breakdown and scale.

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Merlin Project Tutorial - 02 Print

The document provides instructions for printing a project from Merlin Project. It details the print window and print preview options, including page layout, contents to print, headers and footers, borders, and adding a watermark. The options allow printing the entire project on one sheet of paper by adjusting the page breakdown and scale.

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Instructions for Merlin Project


© 2018 - ProjectWizards GmbH
Print - Status June 2018
Print  1
Print project contents  1
Contents   2
Page layout   3
Print the project on one sheet of paper   4
Headers and footers   5
Edges   6
Watermark   6
Print
In Merlin Project the Print Window is available via the menu File > Print. This is the
macOS integrated and unified print dialog. The settings for the paper size can be found
in it.

Print project contents


The print window is available in macOS in two views: The view with less and more details.

The simple view offers only few customization options. Click on the button show details.
This opens the extended print preview. This contains the options described below.

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The paper size and alignment are determined by the selection of the
 printer used.

Contents
The Contents drop-down menu offers options for setting the contents to be printed.

For example, specify the pressure range:

• Similar to project view

• Outline and Gantt

• Only structure

• Gantt only

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The other options control the graphical output of the project in the printout:

• print background

• print gradients

• print shadow

• Repeat column header on each page (usefull for printing over several pages)

• Wrap at column boundaries (usefull for printing over several pages)

• Wrap at line boundaries (usefull for a printout over several pages)

Page layout
With the Page Splitting_ you determine the scaling of the project to the set paper
format. If you want to output a large project on a DIN A4 paper sheet, it may be displayed
very small.

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The number of pages, related to the width or height of the selected paper format,
determines the size of the output.

For example, if you set a page as width, the project is automatically


 scaled to a page width. See the following section.

Print the project on one sheet of paper


Click on the alignment of the paper. This determines whether the sheet is printed with the
project content in portrait or landscape format.

Then select Page Breakdown from the drop-down menu. For a previously selected
landscape, select a page for width.

This automatically adjusts the entire project to the paper sheet in its entire width.

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This setting is marked with an star. All other values are derived from this
 setting.

Headers and footers


The options for the headers and footers offer a variety of settings. Prefabricated entries*
are arranged at the bottom. The Format drop-down menu contains options for Text
formatting.

Select the header and footer and the position in the line (left, middle or right). Then
move one of the entries into the field with the mouse. The entries can be extended by
individual text input.

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Edges
The option Borders is suitable for the use of header and footer as well as a watermark.

Enlarge the borders if the header and footer as well as the watermark are covered in the
project content printout.

Depending on the printer model used, the distance to the paper


 margin varies.

Watermark
The Watermark option is used to include a graphic in the printout. This allows you to
include your own company logos in the printout.

The various options control the position, size and opacity of the image in the printout.

First set a check mark at print watermark.

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Then move a graphic file, which is to serve as logo for the watermark, into the field
image.

Then specify position, style, scaling_, level and coverage_ of the watermark.

Set the scaling to manual, so that the image can be changed in percentage in its size.

In the mini preview you can see the result of the changes in real time.

All graphic formats can be used for the watermark (JPEG, GIF, TIFF,
 PNG and others), which are also supported by macOS and Preview.

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