The placement of any header item is stored in terms of horizontal (x) and vertical (y) inches or centimeters.
! LogPlot2003 and earlier versions stored placement in screen pixels. The Log Designer will open older design files and automatically translate the pixel coordinates into inches/centimeters for you.
The horizontal coordinates start at 0 along the left edge of the screen and increase to the right in decimal inches or centimeters. The horizontal range of the design page is dependent upon the currently-selected printer, page size, and orientation (established under the File | Page Setup menu option), since a printer with 15 inch paper will allow more design space (wider logs) than one with 8.5 inch paper. The paper's right edge will be shown with a red line.
The vertical coordinates of the header are expressed as decimal inches/centimeters relative to the top of the paper or design screen. At the top of the header, the y-coordinate is 0. It extends down to the length of the currently-selected printer page. The vertical coordinates of the footer are recorded in decimal inches/centimeters relative to the top of the footer.
You can turn on a reference grid at a user-defined pixel density to aid you in placing header items. You can also activate "snapping" of items to that grid.
The entirety of the header or footer may not be visible at one time; you may use the scroll bars to view hidden portions, or you may increase the size of the visible header or footer pane, or you may turn off design panes you are not using right now.
You can change the units that are displayed in the reference ruler by selecting the Inches versus cm's option in the printer and page settings (File | Page Setup command). If you change the units in the page setup, be sure to re-compute the default page size.
You may use as much or as little of the available header and footer space as you wish. When you compile your data into the log design within LogPlot, the program will honor any white space at the top of the header and footer, assuming you've left that space there as an upper margin. However, the program will not include blank space below the lowest header item - it will start the log body wherever the header ends (plus any header/footer margin you've declared), and the lowest footer item will be placed at the bottom of the page.
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