Quick start Guide

PrinTao 8 Effortless Professional Printing

Images can be directly drawn with the mouse from the

preview window to PrinTao’s central working area. They

will be inserted to the document according to the se-

lected template. Performing a double click on an image

inside the Mediathek, opens it with the default software

for this le type. Right-Clicking opens a context menu

oering further options and hitting the space bar key

opens the selected image with the OS X QuickLook

preview.

Tool Palettes

A sidebar with tool palettes is located at the central

working area’s right side. Clicking on a tool’s title bar

opens or closes this tool’s palette. By default, the

sidebar is preset to have only a single palette open at

once. This way, the sidebar will remain tidy and tedious

scrolling is unnecessary. By clicking on the padlock, a

palette will remain open (3) permanently. If the padlock

is locked, auto-closing the palette is prevented. The

gear wheel button (2) at the very top right of the right

sidebar opens a context menu to open and close

individual tool palettes. The complete sidebar can be

hidden (1) for a larger central working are by clicking

the double arrow button.

Template

This tool palette contains a number of pre-dened

templates for layouting the print medium. It includes

templates for arranging the images on the medium in

grid patterns, templates for photographers, who want

to provide their customers with packages of images in

dierent standard sizes, as well as templates for free

placement of images and custom templates. Using a

drop-down menu (1) the templates displayed in this

dialog can be reduced to one of these groups.

A click on the arrow button at the top right displays

additional options (2) for an automatic image place-

ment. If the option Crop to t is checked, PrinTao 8

increases or decreases the image until the image cell is

completely lled – overlapping parts of the image are

cut o. A check at Rotate to t ensures that images are

rotated at placement, if they would better t into the

cell after rotation.

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