Print Area

Print areas are used to print sections. You can define multiple print areas and select and print one of them from the print menu as required. Print areas are displayed in the map window with a frame and printer icons in all four corners of the frame.

Properties

Caption and Editability
Caption

Specify a name here to be able to find the element more quickly in the Contents control window. For analyses, maps or sheets, you should use a name that contains the topic.

EasyMap assigns generic names for new elements (e.g. map 1). If you do not change these, you will later have great difficulty in finding certain content in workbookn.
Visibility
General

Here you can control the visibility of objects and elements.
Location
Reference Point

Select the point from which the distances of the object are to be displayed.
Offset Left

In conjunction with the reference point, the distance in cm from the left.
Offset from Top

In conjunction with the reference point, the distance in cm from the top.
Size
Width

Width of the object in cm.
Height

Height of the object in cm.

Commands

You can right-click on an object in the control window Contents or on a selected object in the map window to open its context menu. This offers some actions that can be performed on this object.

Select other Object

If you do not want to select the uppermost object at the mouse position, but an object below it, you can select this using the selection list. Besides locking the selection level, this is the only way to select objects that are hidden by other objects.
Transfer Selection to

Transfers the current selection geographically to another object. Details...
Visible

Shows whether the object is visible and allows switching the visibility.
Order

Here you can change the selected element in the character sequence. Another option is to drag and drop the selected element within the content view.
Align

Aligns several objects flush or aligns an object within its parent object. Details...
Adjust pressure range to print side

Adjusts the print area to the page specified by the printer.
Set print area to screen area

Sets the print area identical to the currently selected screen area.
Copy

Copy the object (if necessary with all subobjects) to the clipboard to paste it elsewhere. The object can be inserted in other applications as a graphic, or inserted in EasyMap as a copy of this object using the Insert command.
Paste

Pastes the contents of the clipboard into this object as a child object.
Delete

Deletes the selected element. (See also: delete objects)
Rename

Only in Control window Contents

Changes the content view to an edit mode to give the object a new name. (This can also be achieved by clicking on an object that has already been marked.)
Properties

Opens a properties dialog in which you can edit the Properties of the selected object. If several objects are selected, many properties can also be changed simultaneously for these objects.