Print and page settings of reports

For each report, you can set its page settings including the orientation of the page, the page margins and its header and footer, using the Print Settings Bar on the left side of the Reports Print Preview window.

Print settings barOn top of the Print Settings Bar you will immediately spot the big Print button. Press it, and the selected report will roll out of your printer. Underneath the Print button, you can change a number of settings:

  • Printer settings: Use the Printer... button to select the printer you want or change printer specific settings (like what paper you want to print on). You can also set how many copies of the document you want, if you want to print recto/verso, in colour or black & white, etc. (provided your printer supports these settings of course). If you want to create a PDF document of your report, you can also install a PDF writer and 'print' to a PDF document.
  • Orientation: choose whether you want to have your report in portrait or in landscape mode. Logframer will adapt the spacing of columns automatically, but you may find that the available space becomes too cramped in portrait mode. So for many reports, you may want to switch to landscape mode instead.
  • Margins: you can set the margins to thin, normal or wide. Press the Custom margins... button to open a dialog window where you can set the margins manually.
  • Header text: click this button to open a new dialog window to set the header text. You can specify a different page header for each individual report, or copy the header of one report to all the other ones. See this page for more information on how to set the header text of your report(s).
  • Footer text: click this button to open a new window to set the footer text. You can specify a different page footer for each individual report, or copy the footer of one report to all the other ones. See this page for more information on how to set the header text of your report(s).

You will find these print and page settings options for each individual report. Underneath these basic options you will see report specific options that enable you to change the appearance of that particular report. We will show and explain these options on the corresponding help pages.

Note: for users of Logframer versions 1.0 and 1.1, the Print Settings Bar replaces the Page set-up window.

Headers and footers

For each report, you can set page headers and footers. To do so, press the Headers... or Footers... button in the Print Settings Bar.

Page header dialog window

There are three text areas: on the left, the centre and on the right side of the page. If you use all three areas, Logframer will divide the available space between the three areas. If you use only the left and right area, both will get half of the page at their disposal. If you use only one area, it will have the whole page width at its disposal.

You can use all text options that are also available for the logical framework itself (bold, italics, text colour...)

Page numbers

To insert page numbers and/or the total number of pages, you can use the buttons on the right of the toolbar. Simply click with the text cursor on the place where you want to insert the page number, and then click on the Page number button.

A placeholder text will appear {&Page} that will be replaced by the actual page number in the preview or printed document. You can format this placeholder like you would any other text.

Copy the header/footer to all other reports

If you want the exact same header or footer on all your documents, you can check the Copy this header to all reports option (or Copy this footer to all reports option) on the bottom left of the dialog. When you press the OK button, all other reports get the same outlook.