Chapter 6 Diagrams and Symbols

Page Setup options

The Page Setup dialog box allows you to:

• Modify standard printer parameters, such as Paper, Orientation and Margins.
• Add various kinds of information to the Header, Footer and Page of your printed diagram.

To customize your printed diagram footer:

1. Open the Print Diagram dialog box (see Printing diagrams) and click the Page Setup button.
2. Click the arrow tool to the right of the Footer field and select Current Page from the list. Click the tool again, and select Last Page from the list. The field will now contain the following two PowerDesigner variables:

%PAGE% %TOTALPAGE%

1. Edit the text in the field by adding some additional, hard-coded text, such as the following:

Page: %PAGE% of %TOTALPAGE%

1. [optional] Click the Apply To button to apply page setup options to other diagrams in the current model or in other models opened in the workspace:
2. Click OK to return to the Print Diagram dialog box, and then click OK. Your footers will print as follows:

Page: 1 of 16
Page: 2 of 16

etc

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