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Note that only foreground layers are printed. Background layers are never printed.
Print As
NORMAL is suitable for most types of document.
However some printers do not reproduce consistent colors when printing bitmaps or
vector objects that are the same color (this is a fault with the printer driver). This is
noticeable if objects overlap onto bitmaps or onto objects with transparency applied
to them. In this case, select
BITMAP or ANTI-ALIASED BITMAP and retry.
The choice between B
ITMAP and ANTI-ALIASED BITMAP depends on the printer and
personal preference. Some printers give best results with anti-aliasing turned off
especially when printing thin lines. As a rule, using anti-aliasing allows lower
resolution printing. For example, 150 DPI bitmap printing is usually good enough for
all uses-even typesetting. Without anti-aliasing, higher resolutions may be needed
which gives much slower printing.
Transparency resolution
When printing, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013's transparency effects are
created using bitmaps.
This option controls the resolution of those bitmaps when sent to the printer.
Automatic is suitable for most drawings, and means MAGIX Page & Layout Designer
2013 automatically selects a resolution suitable for the current printer. This might be
unsuitable if printing to a very high resolution printer such as image setting devices. In
this case you may wish to control the print resolution manually by entering the
desired value.
Note that modern printers often claim to be able to print at over 1000 dots-per-inch,
but this is not the same thing as "pixels-per-inch", which is what you see on screen.
Generally, it's never necessary to print at more than 600 pixels-per-inch, and typically
300 pixels per inch produces perfectly adequate print results, especially if anti-
aliased.
Fill quality
Using this option, you can choose how many steps make up the graduated fills in your
document when it is printed. The
NORMAL setting is suitable for most purposes. This
option is dimmed for PostScript printers.
Text options
If your printer has problems reproducing fonts, select the PRINT ALL TEXT AS SHAPES
option. All text is then converted to vector shapes before the document is sent to the
printer. This may be slower, but will reproduce exactly what you see on screen.