Print Options

When you ask to print either a report or graph, you may set many of the Print Options listed below. Which particular options will be presented depends on the report or graph you have requested. If you are saving a Web Page, many of these options will be presented as well, to similar purpose.

Report Title is the text that prints in the first line of the shaded box at the top of the report.

Report SubTitle is the text that prints in the second line of the shaded box at the top of the report.

Copies set to the number of copies you require.

Starting Page Number set to the Page Number you want to print at the bottom of the report. If zero (0), page numbering is turned off. The default value for this field is incremented by one for each printed page if page numbering is turned on, so all your reports will be consecutively numbered.

Print Fast, No Graphics if you check this option, the printed page will show all letters and numbers (AND the graph, if this is a Sensitivity or Risk Analysis), but the shaded boxes, shadowed boxes, and any lines will not be printed. This saves a lot of time in printing the reports. If you are printing for internal purposes and simply want a report for the files, save printing time by checking this option.

Print Disclaimer check this to print the Disclaimer (see Preferences) at the bottom of the first report page. Omitting the Disclaimer allows more room for report data.

Report Commentary enter any comments you want here, and they will be printed at the top of the report page. If comments are already in this box, they have been generated by planEASe and you may edit or eliminate them as you desire. The TransferComment menu option causes a dialog to appear allowing you to cut, copy and paste comments from and to your Assumption Set and this Report Commentary.

Report Orientation most planEASe Reports are meant to be printed in Portrait Orientation, which means that the top of the Report is written along the short side of the paper (so the Report is long and thin). However, most printers can also print in Landscape Orientation, which means that the top of the Report is written along the long side of the paper (so the Report is wide and short). Some planEASe Reports (like Income Statements) can appear better when printed in Landscape Orientation. When the Print Options Dialog appears for these Reports, you are allowed to set the Orientation to either Portrait or Landscape before printing.

Printer... Button allows you to switch printers and/or configure printer options. planEASe uses a “Session Printer”. When you begin your planEASe session, the Session Printer is set to your default printer. If you access the Printer... Button and change to another printer, planEASe remembers this printer as your “Session Printer”, and all output is written to that printer until you again access the Printer... Button to change to another printer.

Printing Problems Report doesn’t Fit Page planEASe reports are “smart”, in that they examine the size of the page allowed to them by your Paper Size and your margins (as set in Page Setup), together with the size of the numbers in the report, the size of your commentary (if any), the font typeface (as set in Page Setup) and, in some cases, the desirable number of columns/page (for the Horizontal Reports) to determine the font size used to print the report body. Widening your margins, using wider paper, using less commentary, and/or using a condensed True Type font may well result in your report fitting nicely when it didn’t before.