Sheet Configuration dialog

The Sheet Configuration dialog defines how different Print context sections output on different Media (see Media) and using different Master Pages (see Master Pages).

Note: Master Pages, Media and Duplex printing options can also be set in a Control Script (see Control Scripts and Control Script API). This is especially useful when you need identical sections with different settings.

General options

The first option defines Duplex printing, which also enables or disables the settings for the Back side of each sheet.
If Duplex is enabled, you can also:

  • Check Omit empty back side for Last or Single sheet to reset a page to Simplex if it has an empty back side (no content and no Master Page). Thus changing a Duplex job into a Mixplex job may reduce volume printing costs as omitted back sides aren't included in the number of printed pages. On the other hand, depending on the printer type it may reduce the print speed as well.

  • Check Tumble to duplex pages like in a calendar. (On Portrait output, this would be equivalent to short-edge duplex.)

  • Check Facing pages to have the margins of the section switch alternately, so that pages are printed as if in a magazine or book.

The Media rotation setting rotates the Media 0, 90, 180, or -90 degrees.

Sheet position options

With the option Same for all positions checked, the same Master Page and Media will be applied to every page in the Print section.
When this option isn't checked, there are multiple groups, each defining the settings for pages grouped by their position within the section as it outputs: First, Middle, Last and Single sheets.

Each group defines:

  • Allow content on: Selects on which face of the sheet content is allowed.
    If Front only or Back only is selected, the page acts as a Simplex page even though Duplex printing is enabled. The other page may contain a Master Page, but no contents will be printed on it. As such it does not count in the Content Page Number and Content Page Count markers which can be inserted via the Insert menu (see Page numbers ).

  • Media: Defines the media that is used. If the Media has Virtual Stationery defined, the selected image is shown as a background to each page that corresponds to the media's sheet position.

    • Edit Script: Click this button to create a script that defines which Media is used.

  • Master Page Front: Defines the Master Page used for the front of the selected sheet's position. (Disabled if Back only is selected under Allow content on).

  • Master Page Back: Defines the Master Page used for the back of the selected sheet's position. (Disabled if Front only is selected under Allow content on, or if Duplex is unchecked.)
    Omit Master Page Back in case of an empty back page omits the specified Master Page on the last backside of a section if that page is empty. That page will then also be skipped from the page count unless the page numbers continue on the next section (see Configuring page numbers).
    Note that if the Omit empty back side for Last or Single sheet option (see General options) is checked as well, the empty backside will not appear in the output at all and will not be counted in any case.

The Repeat sheet configuration option can be used to have the sheet configuration repeat every n number of pages. This is useful when documents can be so long that they cannot fit into one envelope.