Quick start Guide
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PrinTao 8 Effortless Professional Printing
Central working area
The central working area shows the print media, on
which the images are placed and prepared for printing.
By selecting an image with a mouse click, a context
sensitive toolbar (2) appears. From left to right, it is
containing the following controls: Edit cell, edit image,
crop image, rotate image by 90°, mirror image and set cell
size. The lever in the middle of the cell is used to rotate
(1) the cell or the image respectively. Using a Free layout
template, image cells can be manually arranged, resized
and rotated by the user. The Grid and Pack templates, in
contrast, have xed image cells.
Editing an image cell
The Edit cell mode (1) is used to resize, rotate and move
the complete image cell on the print media. Image qual-
ity eects of any resizing will be immediately indicated
by the background color of the slider control. An image
cell is resized, while maintaining its image’s proportions,
by moving its corner handles or its slider control. An
image cell is moved on the print media by dragging it
with the mouse. Any change in position and size can be
tracked in the Cell properties palette. The text elds can
be used to enter exact numerical values.
Editing an image
In edit image mode (2), the controls are very similar to
the controls in edit cell mode (1). The image cell is xed
in position and the editing aects the image inside this
cell. In this case, moving the control slider resizes the
image inside the cell, while the cell size itself remains
the same. Again, the slider’s background color indicates
the print quality regarding image resolution.
Cropping an image
In crop image mode (3), the image is not resized when
resizing the cell, like it is in edit cell mode (1). Thus,
resizing the cell in crop image mode is used to crop the
image, while not changing the print quality. Like in edit
image mode (2), the image can be rotated and moved
inside the cell using the mouse in order to nd the right
image detail.
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