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Page Layout Control

Every XPress export uses the page layout settings in the Settings sidebar. They apply uniformly to every page of the resulting PDF.

Open XPress, click the Settings icon if the sidebar isn’t already open, and you’ll see the layout controls at the top.

OptionUse it for
A4International standard. Default for most teams outside North America.
LetterUS standard (8.5” × 11”). Default for most North American teams.
LegalUS legal size (8.5” × 14”).
A3Double the area of A4 — good for diagrams, posters, and dense tables.

XPress doesn’t currently offer custom paper sizes — the four standard options above are what you have.

  • Portrait — taller than wide. The default; good for normal documents.
  • Landscape — wider than tall. Good for wide tables, screenshots, diagrams, and slide-style content.

The whole PDF uses one orientation. You can’t mix portrait and landscape pages within a single export.

Margins are set per side, in millimetres:

  • Top
  • Right
  • Bottom
  • Left

Each side is an independent input — you can set them all to the same value for a uniform margin, or vary them (e.g., wider left margin if you’re printing for binding).

Margins interact with headers and footers (see Headers & Footers) — the header/footer text appears in the margin band, so make sure your top and bottom margins are large enough to fit them.

  • Standard internal document: A4 (or Letter), portrait, default margins. Good enough for 95% of use cases.
  • Wide tables or diagrams: switch to landscape; consider A3 if it’s really wide.
  • Print for binding: bump the left margin to 25–30 mm to leave a binding gutter.
  • Compact / paper-saving: smaller margins (10 mm each side) maximize content per page.
  • Branded handout: keep top and bottom margins around 20–25 mm to leave room for a header logo + page numbers.

Layout settings live for your current XPress session in this browser tab. They reset to defaults the next time you open XPress in this space. Per-space layout presets are a likely future addition — let us know if you want them.