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section on top. To open the Preview tab, click it at the bottom of the Workspace or select View >
Preview View on the menu.
The Media will not be printed, unless this is specifically requested through the printer settings in
the Print Wizard; see "Generating Print output" on page 309.
See "Media" on page 371 for further explanation about how to add Media and how to apply
them to different pages.
Print context
The Print context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Print templates.
Print templates, also called Print sections, are part of the Print context. They are meant to be
printed to a printer or printer stream, or to a PDF file (see "Generating Print output" on page
309).
The Print context can also be added to Email output as a PDF attachment; see "Generating
Email output" on page 320. When generating output from the Print context, each of the Print
sections is added to the output document, one after the other in sequence, for each record.
Creating the Print context
You can start creating a Print template with a Wizard (see "Creating a Print template with a
Wizard" on page 426), or add the Print context to an existing template (see "Adding a context"
on page 222).
Tip
To create a Print section from an existing PDF file, use a PDF file as a Print section's
background. Editing PDF files in the Designer is not possible, but when they're used as a
section's background, you can add text and other elements, such as a barcode, to them.
See "Using a PDF file as background image" on page 359.
When a Print template is created, the following happens:
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The Print context is created and one Print section is added to it. You can see this on the
Resources pane: expand the Contexts folder, and then expand the Print folder.
The Print context can contain multiple sections: a covering letter and a policy, for
example, or one section that is meant to be attached to an email as a PDF file and
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