Xerox Printer manual Planning your forms, Determining format, Orientation

2.Planning your forms

This chapter describes the parameters you must determine and specify when designing your form.

Careful planning and design are critical to creating electronic versions of your forms. Form planning and design specify such things as page size, orientation, layout, fonts, inks, and highlight colors.

For additional information about designing complex forms and Xerox laser printer capabilities, refer to the ªSystem considerationsº appendix.

Determining format

Before you create a form with HFDL command statements, you must plan its layout, content, and appearance according to the requirements described in the following sections.

Page orientation

The orientation of a page is either portrait or landscape. Figure 2±1 shows these orientations.

Figure 2±1. Page orientation

LANDSCAPE

PORTRAIT

The landscape orientation, sometimes called the horizontal format, refers to a page whose horizontal side is longer than its vertical side.

The portrait orientation, sometimes called a vertical format, refers to a page whose vertical side is longer than its horizontal side. Use the portrait orientation for text material such as letters, manuals, reports, and forms that need the tall vertical format.

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