Printer Margins

Try Ctrl+R before printing. If that does not work, you cannot change the printer margins in Appraise-It. You might be able to do so in your printer driver. If not you may be able to try a different printer driver for your printer. Or if you have Adobe Writer, you could print it from Adobe Writer and change the margins there.

Appraise-It

Of course, before doing any of the following be absolutely certain that you have selected legal size paper in Appraise-It. Open the report and click File – Print Setup – Setup – Paper – Legal – Ok, Ok.

Printer Driver

1) Click on Start – Settings – Printers

2) Right click on your printer

3) Left click Properties

a. Left click Paper tab (if there is one)

b. Left click Unprintable Area (if there is one)

c. Adjust the margins

4) If you do not have these options in your printer drive, check the other tabs for this Unprintable Area option or a Margins setting.

5) If there are not any, then you cannot set the margins in the printer driver. You may either try another printer driver for your printer or use Adobe.

(Note: If the margins were working, but suddenly stopped working, you might try deleting your printer driver and reinstalling it.)

Adobe Writer

1) Create the Report in a PDF using Adobe Writer

a. If you have Adobe Acrobat (PDF Writer), you can create a Portable Document File (.PDF). (If you do not have Adobe Writer, you will need to purchase it from Adobe or from some third party such as www.buy.com or www.cnet.com)

b. Complete the report and save it in Appraise-It.

i) Click on File-Print and then click on the Printer Setup button.

ii) Select the Acrobat PDFWriter (not Distiller) from the printer pull-down menu.

iii) Click on Setup and make sure legal size paper is selected.

iv) Click on the Compression Options and select Compress using JPEG HIGH.

v) Click OK until you get back to the Print Commander dialog box.

vi) Select the pages you want to print and hit Print.

c. In your TRADATA\DATA directory you will now have the original report and a copy of it with the same prefix as your original report with a .PDF extension. (For example, if your report is named Test.RPT then there will also be Test.PDF.)

2) Print the report from Adobe

a. Open the report in Adobe by double clicking on it in your Tradata\Data directory (e.g., double click Test.PDF)

i) Click document – crop pages

b. Adjust the margins. (For example, if you increase the Top crop, it will decrease the top margin. If you increase the left crop, it will decrease the left margin.)

i) Click Ok

c. Click File – Print – Properties – Paper

i) Select Legal

ii) Click Ok, Ok