Fitting the Content to the Page

Sometimes the fit isn't quite right; here's how to deal with some of the issues.

Printing More Than One Slide on a Page

For printing purposes, each slide you add to the drawing is considered a page. Save your drawing file as a presentation and use the handouts feature in Impress.

See also Fitting Multiple Pages Onto One Sheet on page 85 for information on documents throughout the program.

Page Setup

Choose Format > Page and make sure the page is set up correctly. See Page Setup on page 757 for more information.

Cramming a Slide Onto a Page

Sometimes you just need to squish a drawing to get the printed output right. If the slide is too big, you'll generally be notified when you print, and you can choose the Fit to Size option at that point. To be prepared ahead of time, however, you can mark the Fit to Size option using either of the following navigations:

Page Format Window

1. Choose Format > Page and click the Page tab.

2. Select Fit to size and click OK.

Note

If you want to print an image in landscape that's too long to fit the short way onto the landscape page, choose Format > Page. In the Page tab, select Landscape and select Fit to size, then click OK. If Fit to size isn't selected when you mark Landscape, it won't work to apply it after the fact.

Print Options Window

1. Choose File > Print and click the Options button.

2. Select the Fit to page option and click OK.

3. Click OK to print.

You also can refer to Fitting Multiple Pages Onto One Sheet on page 85 to see how it's done across the program.

Stretching a Small Drawing to Fill a Page

There's a Fill entire page option in the Page Format window, but it doesn't have any effect. Use the Scale field in the Paper tab of the Printer Properties window (File > Printer Setup, or File > Print > Properties). This works intermittently, but with enough consistency to be worth trying.

Your best bet is to just manually enlarge the drawing, if you want it to fill more of a page than it is now. Group the elements of the drawing, if there are more than one, then resize the group .

Printing the Same Drawing Several Times on One Page

You can tile the drawing so that it appears as many times as it can fit on one piece of paper. Just choose Tools > Options > Drawing > Print and select Tile.

If you have more than one slide, each slide will be tiled several times on each piece of paper; you won't see all the slides tiled one after another.

Be sure that your page size is smaller than the page size of the paper you'll print on, or it'll only fit once and no tiling will occur. Also be sure to match up your page orientation and printer orientation or you'll get unexpected results.