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17.2 Detailed Directions
This section includes the following procedure:
• Create a Graybar Report (Page 272)
17.2.1 Create a Graybar Report
You use the Graybar Wizard to:
• Enter a name for the graybar report document.
• Associate a data file with the document.
• Select the PPD you want the document to use.
• Define the properties of the graybar page. These properties are the page format, page orientation,
duplexing, and the height, color, and border of each bar in the band.
In PlanetPress Design, a graybar report document contains at most one graybar page. It can contain as many
other pages as you need. You can create the graybar page using the Graybar Wizard, and any other pages
you need by adding pages to the document once you exit the Graybar Wizard.
You use the Graybar Wizard once, and only once, to set up the graybar document. Once you exit the Graybar
Wizard, you can design the rest of the graybar report document using any of the features available in
PlanetPress Design. Note that the graybar page you created using the Graybar Wizard contains a set of box
objects, where each box object is a bar on the graybar page. You can edit the properties of, or delete, any of
these box objects. If you want to change any of the bar and/or page properties you set in the Graybar Wizard,
you must start a new document and begin a new session with the Graybar Wizard.
To create a graybar report document:
1. From the PlanetPress Design Button, choose New.
2. Choose Tools | Application | Graybar Wizard.
3. In the Graybar Wizard, click Introduction and enter a name for the graybar report document.
Document name: Enter a name for the document. PlanetPress Design uses the name you enter here
as the value of the Name box in the Document properties dialog box for this graybar report document. If
you install the document on a printer, this is the name under which the printer stores the converted
document. Note that when you convert a document for PlanetPress Watch/Server, the converted
document bears the name of the PP4 file for the document, not the name you enter here.
4. In the Graybar Wizard, click Select data file and select the sample data file for the document.
Data file: Displays the path of the sample data file associated with the graybar report document. Click
the Browse button to the right of the box to use the Data Selector to select a sample data file. You can
also set up the emulation you want to use with the graybar report in the Data Selector.
5. In the Graybar Wizard, click Page setup, select a PostScript Printer Definition (PPD) file, and define
the default paper format and orientation for the graybar report document.
Printers: Select the PPD for the graybar report document. PlanetPress Design uses the PPD you select
here as the value of the Designed for box in the Document properties dialog box for this graybar report
document. The contents of the PPD subfolder in the PlanetPress program folder determine the contents
of this list. The PPD that appears by default here is the one selected in the Default printer box of the
User Options dialog box.
Paper type: Select the default paper format for the graybar page. The format that appears here by
default is the one set in the User Options dialog box. The formats available depend on the PPD you
selected in the Printers box. Note that you should not adjust the paper format for the graybar page once
you exit the Graybar Wizard; the bands of the graybar page do not adjust to reflect any change.
If you are printing in 2-up mode, the Default page size box in the Document properties dialog box
determines the size of the paper on which the two pages print; the page size you select here determines
the scaling required to fit the two pages on that paper size.
Paper orientation: Select the orientation for the graybar page (Portrait, Landscape, Rotated portrait,
Rotated landscape). PlanetPress Design uses the paper orientation you select here as the value of the
Paper orientation box in the Page properties dialog box for the graybar page. Rotated options rotate the
paper 180 degrees, and can be useful when you are working with perforated paper or using an
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