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WiththeDesigneryoucancreateoneormorePrinttemplatesandmergethetemplatewithadataset
togeneratepersonalletters,invoices,policies,oranyothertypeofletteryoucanthinkof.
ThePrintcontextisthefolderintheDesignerthatcancontainoneormorePrintsections.
Printtemplates(alsocalledPrintsections),arepartofthePrintcontext.Theyaremeanttobeprinted
directlytoaprinteroraprinterstream/spoolfile,ortoaPDFfile(see"GeneratingPrintoutput"on
page858).
ThePrintcontextcanalsobeaddedtoEmailoutputasaPDFattachment;see"GeneratingEmailout-
put"onpage876.
WhengeneratingoutputfromthePrintcontext,eachofthePrintsectionsisaddedtotheoutputdoc-
ument,oneaftertheotherinsequence,foreachrecord.
WhenaPrinttemplateiscreatedorwhenaPrintcontextisaddedtoanexistingtemplatethePrintcon-
textfolderiscreatedalongwithotherfoldersandfilesthatarespecifictoaPrintcontext(see"Creating
aPrinttemplatewithaWizard"onthefacingpage,"Addingacontext"onpage110and"Printcontext"
onpage122).
OnlyonePrintsectioniscreatedatthestart,butyoucanaddasmanyPrintsectionsasyouneed;see
"Printsections"onpage126.
Pages
Unlikeemails,Printsectionscancontainmultiplepages.Pagesarenaturallylimitedbytheirsizeand
margins.Ifthecontentofasectiondoesn'tfitononepage,theoverflowgoestothenextpage.Thishap-
pensautomatically,basedonthesection'spagesizeandmargins;see"Pagesettings:size,margins
andbleed"onpage135.
TheminimumnumberofpagescanbesetviathePrintsectionproperties;see"Printsectionprop-
erties"onpage485.
Althoughgenerallythesamecontentelementscanbeusedinallthreecontexts(see"Contentele-
ments"onpage170),thespecificcharacteristicsofpagesmakeitpossibletousespecialelements,
suchaspagenumbers;see"Pagenumbers"onpage136.
See"Pages"onpage134foranoverviewofsettingsandelementsthatarespecificforpages.
Headers, footers, tear-offs and repeated elements (Master page)
InPrintsections,thereareoftenelementsthatneedtoberepeatedacrosspages,likeheaders,footers
andlogos.Inaddition,someelementsshouldappearoneachfirstpage,oronlyonpagesinbetween
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