Printing

Pick a sheet — Letter, A4, A5, half-letter or an index card, portrait or landscape — and the paper outline appears on the canvas at its real size, with everything outside it dimmed.

1:1 prints at true scale: an inch on the artwork is an inch on the paper. The view zoom locks to match, so what sits inside the outline is exactly what prints, and you pan your artwork onto the sheet. That's the mode for a full-size cut template you can lay straight on the material.

Fit to page unlocks the zoom so you can frame whatever area you want at whatever size — the mode for a proof or a reference print.

Three toggles control the content:

• Layer colors — strokes print in each layer's color. Turn it off for plain black outlines, which is usually what you want on a mono laser printer.
• Fills — your region fills print as solid color, with inner contours punching holes exactly as they do on screen. Only closed shapes fill.
• Reference images — traced or reference bitmaps print underneath the vectors. Usually off for a cut template, useful for a proof.

Hidden layers never print, whatever the toggles say.

The optional title block runs along the bottom of the sheet and carries the file name, the date, the scale it was printed at and the sheet size — so a measurement taken off the page can be trusted, and a print that's been sitting on the bench for a week still says what it is.

A print is a single sheet. At 1:1 you pan the outline to frame the part of a large design you want; there's no automatic tiling across multiple pages yet.