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Sheet

A sheet is the starting point for inserting all other objects. You need a sheet of paper to place maps, legends, texts and other objects on it.

A sheet of paper establishes the relationship to the printout or to graphic exports. Size specifications on the sheet are given in centimeters. This allows you to specify the layout for a printout directly. The sheet is sent to the printer when printed with these specified sizes. Further details can be found here. A sheet supports you with various properties when preparing it for printing (e.g. Set up page, Set up page).

Inserting new sheets

Another sheet can easily be inserted by clicking on the plus symbol next to the existing sheets. As an alternative, the command New Sheet is still available in the Insert menu.

Once a sheet has been inserted, it is displayed in content view and can be edited or deleted like any other object. The individual sheets can be selected in the map window via tabs.

Note: You can insert any number of sheets into an EasyMap workbook. For reasons of performance and clarity, however, we strongly recommend that you keep the number of sheets used small. A general upper limit cannot be specified, since the size of the maps and the number of objects and analyses used are also important here. From a size of about 20 sheets you should in any case think about splitting the workbook into 2 part workbooks. This saves you unnecessary waiting times when loading workbookn.

Properties

Each sheet can be edited in its properties. Click in the control window Contents on the corresponding sheet with the right mouse button and select Properties in the context menu.

Select the tab whose setting options you want to see in detail.

Common

Caption
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.
Elements Moveable	If the selection is set to No, you cannot move the elements of the layer or map.
Style
Fill	Define the background of your element here. You can specify the color or the fill effect via the color selection field or directly as HTML color value.
Use automatic zoom	Yes: The output scale is used as the reference for scale dependent visibility. No: The scale of a map relative to the sheet (map scale) is used as the reference for scale dependent visibility.
Grid
Align elements to the grid	If you set Yes here, then all elements are aligned directly with the grid.
Show Grid	By switching from No to Yes, you can display a grid that can be used to align these elements on the sheet or in the map.
Width	Here you can set the desired grid width in `cm`.
Height	Here you can set the desired grid height in `cm`.
Print
Print Background	With the setting Yes you can also print the set color of the sheet.
Show Page Break	Here you can specify whether EasyMap should display the page splitting.

commands

The following commands are available when you right-click on the sheet (In the Control Window Contents or in the Sheet Window).

List of context menu commands:

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...
Automatic zoom	Shows whether the automatic zoom is used on the sheet.
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)
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.