4.3.1. Paper Format
Sections
Section name: „Paper" +
<ordinal number>
Attention: The section
with default format "A4 Extra Plus" must not be deleted.
The ordinal numbers must begin from 1
and in an uninterrupted succession, as a missing ordinal number would interrupt
the series. In the case of an interrupted series, the sequence will be read
only up to the interrupting location within the ordinal number series.
Example:
If EXTIF pro.ini looks as follows,
[Paper1]
...
[Paper2]
...
[Paper3]
...
[Paper4]
...
[Paper7]
...
[Paper8]
...
[Paper9]
...
[Paper10]
then on EXTIF pro's Property Pages
only the paper formats having ordinal numbers from 1 to 4 would be available –
as Paper5 is missing - leaving out the ones from 7 to 10.
The length of the paper format name,
which you assign to the variable “PaperName”, must not exceed 32 characters.
Therefore, a file name like this, for example, could not be used:
PaperName
=”Paper format defined particularly for the requirements of customer Miller”
4.3.1.3. Imageable
Area versus Paper Dimensions
The term "Imageable
Area" designates the area of the paper format, without or excluding crop margins, in other words the particular
area, which is actually available to the printing PC application (e.g.
PowerPoint), while ShortSideLength and LongSideLength designate the area with or
including crop margins.
In the above sketch, the crop
margins are colored in yellow. The Imageable Area is thus the area within the
yellow frame.
Example "A4 Extra Plus":
ShortSideLength =2350 //
(2100 + 2 * 125)
LongSideLength =3220
//
(2970 + 2 * 125)
ImaginableAreaShortSideLength
=2100 //
regular A4 width
ImaginableAreaLongSideLength =2970
// regular A4 height
The crop margins, on which the
imprints (register crosses, crop marks, gray-scale
wedge and color wedge) are situated, thus have a width of 1.25 cm each.
If ShortSideLength is larger than
ImaginableAreaShortSideLength and LongSideLength is larger than
ImaginableAreaLongSideLength, EXTIF pro automatically adds crop margins with
imprints, otherwise it doesn’t. Formats, which fulfill the above mentioned conditions, are accompanied
by the suffix "Extra Plus" - but you can
also choose any other name. Please make sure, however, to choose the crop
margins, i.e. the difference between ShortSideLength and
ImaginableAreaShortSideLength, or between LongSideLength and
ImaginableAreaLongSideLength, respectively, are wide enough to hold the
imprints.
Paper Formats suffixed by
"Extra" (without
"Plus") on the
other hand serve in case you desire to add the imprints on the crop margins by
means of programs like "PageMaker"
or "QuarkXPress"
on your own.
If you add a paper format with the
name "XYZ", you do not necessarily need to add a paper format named
"XYZ Extra Plus", too.