The Format Print Page Command creates a Print Preview style Window. Active Graphical windows may be Copied to the Clipboard and Pasted into the Format Page window. If the Graphical window owns a sibling Stats window, its contents will also be pasted. The window data in the Format Page window will update as the contents of the source windows change so as to allow a series of Print pages to be formatted. For more on multiple document window printing, see Increment All. All graphical objects initially get pasted into the upper left corner of the preview window with any included statistical text below, so the best method is to paste in the last item first and move it to the desired location before pasting in another object
· Graphical objects and text panes may be moved by clicking over them with the left mouse button and dragging them to a new position. Graphical objects may be sized by first double clicking over the object to activate it, then grabbing the active handle in the lower right corner with the mouse and dragging it to the desired size. Graphical objects may be deleted by first double clicking over them to activate, then using either the Delete menu command or the Delete key to remove the object from the Format Page window.
· When the pointer is over a graphical display on the page, using Ctrl - left mouse button brings up a popup menu that helps align the window to other windows, square up the window (to make 2D displays square), size other windows of the same type to the size of the selected window, or to size all the windows to the size of the selected window.
· Text panes may not be sized directly, but rather indirectly by selecting a new True Type Font size for the Stats window. The text pane will be sized in porportion to the Font size selected for Stats windows. The use of True Type Fonts is strongly urged, since there are several True Type specific calls in the print code within WinMDI.
· All scaling is done by converting objects and fonts to a normalized Logical Pixels/Inch size first, and then scaling to device resolution.