The Layout window lets you arrange your maps, legends, logos, copyright citations, and titles for an attractive map presentation. You can also combine different types of data, such as maps, browsers, legends, images, text, and shapes, to create a more informative presentation.
What you see in your printout will look the same as what you see in the layout on your screen. Only the contents of a layout that are inside the margins (shown as lines on the layout) print. The grid guide lines, and frame selections that you see on a layout do not print. Most of the contents of a layout print as vector or text, and not as raster.
Use Page Setup to set page size, margins, orientation, and resolution before printing, see Setting Print Margins.
To print your layout:
- Make the Layout window active.
- On the HOME tab, in the Output group, click Print.
- In the Print dialog box, select the printer you want to use and then click Properties to review and change any print settings.
- If you selected a PDF printer, then click the PDF button to review and change PDF print settings.
- In the Print dialog box, click OK to proceed with printing.
If you click PDF instead of Print on the HOME tab, then the Print dialog box opens with settings already made for printing to a PDF file.
The print operation uses the printer, page, and margins set on the Print dialog box. If you change the printer settings on this dialog box when printing, then the layout canvas size changes after the print completes to match the new settings.