The default page size in DoView is called the standard compact 1 x1 page. This page has been designed to be readable on a dataprojector screen in a medium sized room, be printed on U.S. letter or A4 sized paper and be readable in a web page version of a DoView model.

 

However, many other pages sizes can be used in DoView in addition to the compact 1x1 page. One good way of working with DoView is to construct your model out of compact 1 x 1 pages and then clone (make 'live copies') of your steps and other objects and then paste them onto larger pages (e.g. poster sizes). To quickly copy the entire contents of a small 1 x 1 page push Ctrl A then Ctrl C. Then go to the new larger page on which you want to clone your 1 x 1 model and do a Right mouse-click > Paste as clone. This means that you can always dataproject your compact model consisting of 1 x 1 pages and create a usable web page model out of it, but you can also create poster-sized versions of your model. This is why many page sizes in DoView are named as multiples of 1 x 1 pages (e.g. 2 x 2, 6 x 7). This is so that you can know how many 1 x 1 pages will fit onto the larger-sizes pages. These sizes can be thought of as the number of 'columns' of 1 x 1 pages on a larger page by the number of 'rows' of 1 x 1 pages. E.g. a 2 x 2 page contains two 'columns' of 1 x 1 pages and two 'rows' of 1 x 1 pages - making a total of four 1 x 1 pages which can fit on the 2 x 2 two page. Similarly, on a 4 x 10 page, there can be four 'column's of DoView 1 x 1 pages and ten 'rows' of 1 x 1 pages - making a total of forty 1 x 1 pages which can fit on the 4 x 10 page.

 

There are also other page sizes (e.g. A4, US Letter) which are not made up of multiples of 1 x 1 pages. The dimensions of pages (in inches or centimeters) are shown when you click on a page name when selecting it from the New  page options screen.

 

Selecting and creating new page sizes

1. Go to the Small Page List Menu at the bottom of the Page list.

2. Click on the small arrow next to the Create Page icon. Note that you will see listed the page sizes of any pages which are already in your model, in addition to the  option Other sizes...

 

The screenshot below shows that this model contains two types of page size - 1 x 1 and 2 x 2.

 

 

 

 

3. If you want to create a new page (say a 4 x 5 page - which prints to landscape A1 23.39 x 33.07 inches) - click on Other sizes... . You will see the screen below.

4. Select 4 x 5 Prints to landscape A1 paper (23.39 inches x 33.07 inches). Click Make 4 x 5 page at the bottom of the screen. A new page will appear in the Page list, ready for you to name.

 

 

 

 

 

5. Whatever page size you selected, will become the default page size which will be created whenever you create a page from now on (by clicking on the New page icon) until you select a different page size. See the screenshot below.