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There are common Print and Print Preview features for all the main activities in orchidmedia Desktop Companion. This is achieved with ICT's Print Style Designer.  It allows you to create customized documents to print based on where you are in the software at any given time.  The current selections and views displayed on screen define the information to print in the document.

 

Print and Print Preview can be accessed via the Action Menu action on the Menu bar.  For instance, if you are viewing Contact information, you can access the Print Preview option from the Contact Action Menu displayed:-

 

 

When you select the Print Preview option listed in the Action Menu actions, the software will load the Print Preview window with the items found in the current User Folder.

 

With the Contacts Activity, you can create your Print Styles using different Contact View Designs. In the previous topic Creating Contact View Designs, we explained how you can create custom Contact View designs to change the field order and fields displayed in a contact card.   Just as you can change the displayed fields in the contact view, you can assign a different Contact view design to a Print Style.

 

Select the Print Preview option from the Contact Action Menu actions to display the Print Preview window, and select the "Contact Cards Layout (portrait)" item (1) from the Print Style Layout list displayed to the left hand bottom of the window as shown below:-

 

 

Click on the Edit Layout button (2), to edit this item, and the Layout details are shown below. Select the Next Page button (3) to move to the Print Contact Options page:-

 

On the Print Contact Options Page, you can select the Contact View Design from the drop down list of designs in (4), or access the Contact View Designer using the Views button shown by (5) to create a new design.

 

In addition, you can see there are also options to alter the sort order (6), the number of columns and indentation effects (7), and the fonts used for parts of the Print Style shown by (8).

 

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