Printing your chart

From the Chart Setup tab of the Page Setup window, you can define the following settings:

The Charts printing framework provides support for multipage printing.

A multipage printing consists of dividing the x-range of the printed data window in successive intervals with respect to the number of pages. You can change the way the data window of a page is computed by checking the option Custom to change the X range and Y range values.

Through this option, you can define which chart, or chart area, is printed. Printing a chart means that all the components added to the chart will be printed. That includes the header, the footer, and the legend. On the contrary, printing only the chart area means that all the other chart components, including the legend, will be ignored. By default, the whole chart is printed.

You can determine the printed chart size by using the following options:

The chart is expanded to fill the printable area in both dimensions. The original proportions between the chart objects are not preserved.

The chart is expanded in both dimensions proportionally, until the nearest page margins are reached. The original proportions between the chart objects are preserved.

This option is active only when the resize mode is set to Scale to dimension. With the Scale Alignment option you specify the value to use when the aspect ratio of the chart does not match the aspect ratio of the printable area. The default for both horizontal and vertical alignment (Horiz. Alignment and Vert. Alignment) is Center, that is, the chart is centered within the printable area.

This option sets whether y-scales with a minimum or maximum crossing value (that is, positioned on the axis extremities) need to be printed on each page of the document.

When the x-scale title placement is other than 0 or 100 (that is, the axis extremities), this option sets whether the title has to be printed on each page of the document.

Because the printer resolution is usually higher than the screen resolution, there may be some discrepancies between the screen appearance and the printing result. This is particularly true for labels, whose font size may not be adapted for printing. To soften this effect, an additional scale transform may be applied on the printing graphics context when drawing the chart area. The default value is Medium.