Create New/Edit/Delete Layouts

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To edit, duplicate, or create a new Layout follow these steps:

Making a backup
For backup purposes, you may want to save all the original layouts before making many changes to them. You can do this by exporting the ones that you are going to change. Then, if you ever need to revert to the originals, just import the layouts.

It's best to save a changed layout with a new name if you may want the original version in the future. The following steps overwrite the original.

To Edit a Layout:

1.

Open the ClickBook application.

2.

Choose the Layouts button on the toolbar.

3.

The Layouts Dialog will appear.

4.

Choose the desired layout and press Edit. The Layout Settings dialog appears.

5.

Make the changes you want.

6.

Save the layout under its current name by clicking the OK button.

After making changes but before saving them, you can click Cancel. This reverses all changes made since you last saved the layout.

To Duplicate a Layout:

1.

Open the ClickBook application.

2.

Choose the Layouts button on the toolbar.

3.

The Layouts Dialog will appear.

4.

Select desired layouts and press Duplicate.

5.

The Duplicated Layouts will appear in the list. You can edit and rename them as you wish.

To create a New Layout:

1.

Open the ClickBook application.

2.

Choose the Layouts button on the toolbar.

3.

The Layouts Dialog will appear.

4.

Click the New option. The Layout Settings dialog appears.

5.

Type the name in the Layout Name text box.

6.

Make the changes you want.

7.

Save the layout under its current name by clicking the OK button.

Notes on specific settings
Some important details about particular settings are given below. See Modify Layout for a descriptions of all the settings.

Mini-pages Across and Down, and absolute mini-page Width and Height

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If you have selected No scaling, then you must make sure that the page size setting in your application exactly matches (or fits within) the mini-page size. With No scaling on, ClickBook prints one application page on one mini-page without shrinking the data, leaving you to set up the application page exactly as you want it to print and to match the mini-page size.

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You must set the number of mini-pages Across and Down.

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ClickBook automatically sets the mini-page Width and Height to the maximum size that will fit on a sheet. Optionally, you can turn on Use Absolute Dimensions, and then decrease Width and Height to fit a custom page size.

Paper size (in the Page Setup dialog)
This is the size of paper (physical sheets) you're using. Note: This is not to be confused with the application program's paper size setting, which is unrelated (when scaling is used).

Note about mini-page orientation
The selected layout's mini-pages and your document's pages (in its application program) should have the same orientation (portrait or landscape). If ClickBook must scale the document's pages to fit an extremely different page shape, the shape of the text or graphics will end up very distorted. Therefore ClickBook warns you if a layout is selected whose mini-page orientation doesn't match your document pages.

However, you can ignore this warning if you're sure you want to use the selected layout. For example, you may have defined your document's page size in the application program to be almost square (but just barely portrait), while the layout's mini-pages are also almost square (but just barely landscape). This will work okay.

Note that the mini-page/document page orientation is independent of the orientation of the sheet of paper (the Sheet Orientation).