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### Editing sizes, positions, fonts etc.

Customising calendar designs to the way you want them to look is mainly a combination of using the tools accessible from the ‘Edit calendar design’ window, plus selecting the colours in the main display (as already described) - and choosing your RLDs.
The ‘Edit calendar design’ window (briefly introduced earlier) is opened by clicking the Edit design ... button. Initially the window will look like this.
The Update button has already been introduced, but it needs to be added that many (but not all) of those various design-altering actions in the calendar design sub-panes which have instant effect (e.g. the Day text form radio icons - see later) also include the effect of the Update button i.e. any un-incorporated changes will be captured at the same time.
The Display scale group of icons is a repeat of those in the main Toolpane. Either can be used and both stay in sympathy.
The Sideways option icon puts the design into landscape mode. The ‘paper’ is turned sideways and the printing margins altered accordingly. A sideways calendar is designed in exactly the same way and will be printed in landscape mode (if 1page-per-sheet is chosen).
The Calendar format icon merely reflects, for convenience, the format of the currently displayed calendar.
Below this, the column of radio icons on the right determine which element of the calendar design is to be addressed and, accordingly, which editing sub-pane is displayed on the left. Some of the sub-panes need to be scrolled or expanded to get to reveal their full extent.
With few exceptions, all the sub-panes involve similar user actions and they will be taken in turn below.
All measurements are in millimetres (or points, for font sizes).
It is also worth noting that offset values can be negative as well as positive which gives greater flexibility. For example, pictures could deliberately print outside the calendar edge to be trimmed - or the row of days boxes in Format 1 could be placed below the date area. This feature is very useful in Formats 6 & 9 where the single date/day column can be placed over the blank area to achieve specific design aims.
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