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The Printing tool enables users to generate high quality print output in various different file formats, layout page sizes and resolutions. Support for dynamic text fields and simple reporting of attribute data of selected objects is included.

Printing tool - WebOffice category

Property	Description
Use tool?	Specify whether this Tool is available in the WebOffice client (Yes) or not (No).
Default output format	Default print file output format. It is recommended to specify PDF (web optimized) as Default output format.
Allow rotated print?	Defines, if the user is allowed (Yes) or not allowed (No) to rotate the print extent in the tool form.
Use dynamic printing?	Defines, if printing is handled through a print service with dynamic content (Yes) or through a print service with fixed content (No). Important Note: Using dynamic printing further configuration steps are necessary. Refer to chapter Dynamic printing setup for details.
Print overview dynamically?	Specifies, if printing of overview map is handled dynamically ('Yes'), i.e. the content and extent of the overview map currently displayed in the WebOffice client will get rendered into the plot document. Hint: If option 'Yes' is used, then a print map service must be configured for the print tool that contains an empty dataframe called 'overview'.

Printing configuration

Print tool in WebOffice html client

Print tool form in WebOffice 10 R3 client

Note: It is allowed to plot in larger scales than the level of detail of a used cached map service.

Buttons	Description
	Displays the position extent in the map, which is set in the print scale. The print extent or range can still be adjusted by moving the mouse.
	Zooms in on the current print area.
	Prints the content of the current print area.
or	Activates the Series Print option for the current print area. The print area for the Series Print (series print grid) must be drawn and set with the mouse. If there is no Series Print configured, instead of the Print Series - button, the Define Extent - button will appear, with which a predefined scale or print area can be selected. Note: For detailed information about the series print option, please see chapter Print series.

There are two typical configuration scenarios for Print tool:

•Quick and easy: No Print Templates are configured at all. WebOffice 10 R3 dynamically reads all Print Templates (.layout files) stored in the template path and provides them as available Print Templates in the WebOffice 10 R3 client Print tool form.

•Advanced: If you want to use specific text fields, simple reporting of attribute data etc. you should configure Print format elements for each Print format you want to make available for the user.

Note: If you choose the ‘Advanced’ configuration option then only Print Templates explicitly configured in the WebOffice 10 R3 project are available for printing.

See chapter Print for more details.