/text/shared/01/01130000.xhp printing; documents documents; printing text documents; printing spreadsheets; printing presentations; print menu drawings; printing choosing printers printers; choosing print area selection selecting; print areas pages; selecting one to print printing; selections printing; copies copies; printing spoolfiles with Xprinter Print Prints the current document, selection, or the pages that you specify. You can also set the print options for the current document. The printing options can vary according to the printer and the operating system that you use.

The Print dialog consists of three main parts: A preview with navigation buttons, several tab pages with control elements specific to the current document type, and the Print, Cancel, and Help buttons. If you just want to know how to print your document, click any of the following links. Printing text documents: Printing spreadsheets: Printing presentations: General printing: The settings that you define in the Print dialog are valid only for the current print job that you start by clicking the Print button. is this true for Printer Settings, too?If you want to change some options permanently, open Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME (application name) - Print. To set the default %PRODUCTNAME printer options for text documents, choose Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME Writer - Print. To set the default %PRODUCTNAME printer options for spreadsheet documents, choose Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME Calc - Print. To set the default %PRODUCTNAMEprinter options for presentation documents, choose Tools - Options - %PRODUCTNAME Impress - Print. Press Shift+F1 or choose Help - What's This? and point to any control element in the Print dialog to see an extended help text. Preview The preview shows how each sheet of paper will look. You can browse through all sheets of paper with the buttons below the preview.insert controls with hidden help here General On the General tab page, you find the most important control elements for printing. You can define which contents of your document are to be printed. You can select the printer and open the printer settings dialog. Writer: Specifies whether to print colors and objects that are inserted to the background of the page (Format - Page - Background). Specifies whether the graphics and drawings or OLE objects of your text document are printed. Enable this option to print text that is marked as hidden. Enable this option to print text placeholders. Disable this option to leave the text placeholders blank in the printout. Specifies whether the form control fields of the text document are printed. Specifies whether to always print text in black. If this option is enabled automatically inserted blank pages are printed. This is best if you are printing double-sided. For example, in a book, a "chapter" paragraph style has been set to always start with an odd numbered page. If the previous chapter ends on an odd page, %PRODUCTNAME inserts an even numbered blank page. This option controls whether to print that even numbered page. Specify where to print comments (if any). "Specify where to print comments (if any)." Math: Specifies whether you want the name of the document to be included in the printout. Specifies whether to include the contents of the Commands window at the bottom of the printout. Applies a thin border to the formula area in the printout. Prints the formula without adjusting the current font size. Adjusts the formula to the page format used in the printout. Reduces or enlarges the size of the printed formula by a specified factor. Reduces or enlarges the size of the printed formula by a specified factor. Calc: If checked empty pages that have no cell contents or draw objects are printed. Draw: would be the same as IMPRESS, but we cannot have the same Help ID twice in the same Help file. Even when switched this is not allowed because Help is compiled at compile time, while the appl switch gets evaluated only on run time. Moved all DRAW and IMPRESS to default section. BasicIDE: I doubt if we have a BASIC switch at all, so I moved the two IDs to default part. There they clashed with general IDs, so I removed them. Default text will be shown for BASIC IDE printing. General and Basic and Draw and Impress (at end of default case) For printers with multiple trays this option specifies whether the paper tray used is specified by the system settings of the printer. Prints the entire document. Prints only the pages or slides that you specify in the Pages box. Prints only the selected area(s) or object(s) in the current document. To print a range of pages, use a format like 3-6. To print single pages, use a format like 7;9;11. You can print a combination of page ranges and single pages, by using a format like 3-6;8;10;12. Prints to a file instead of to a printer. Check to not rely on the printer to create collated copies but create a print job for each copy instead. Check to print pages in reverse order. Enter the number of copies that you want to print. Preserves the page order of the original document. Opens the printer properties dialog. The printer properties vary according to the printer that you select. Show/Hide detailed information of the selected printer. The list box shows the installed printers. Click the printer to use for the current print job. Click the Printer details button to see some information about the selected printer. Click the Properties button to change some of the printer properties. Specify which pages to include in the output. Select the Brochure option to print the document in brochure format. Select which pages of a brochure to print. For brochure printing, you can select a left-to-right order of pages or a right-to-left order. Check to draw a border around each page. Select order in which pages are to be printed. Select the orientation of the paper. Select margin between the printed pages and paper edge. Select margin between individual pages on each sheet of paper. Select number of rows. Select number of columns. Select how many pages to print per sheet of paper. Print multiple pages per sheet of paper. Impress: Select which parts of the document should be printed. Select how many slides to print per page. Specify how to arrange slides on the printed page. Specifies whether to print the page name of a document. Specifies whether to print the current date and time. Specifies whether to print the pages that are currently hidden. Specifies to print in original colors. Specifies to print colors as grayscale. Specifies to print colors as black and white. Specify how to scale slides in the printout. Specifies that you do not want to further scale pages when printing. Specifies whether to scale down objects that are beyond the margins of the current printer so they fit on the paper in the printer. Specifies that pages are to be printed in tiled format. If the pages or slides are smaller than the paper, several pages or slides will be printed on one page of paper. %PRODUCTNAME Writer / Calc / Impress / Draw / Math The tab page with the same name as the current application can be used to define the contents, color, size, and pages to be printed. You define settings that are specific to the current document type. Page Layout The Page Layout tab page can be used to save some sheets of paper by printing several pages onto each sheet of paper. You define the arrangement and size of output pages on the physical paper. Change the arrangement of pages to be printed on every sheet of paper. The preview shows how every final sheet of paper will look. For some document types, you can choose to print a brochure. Options On the Options tab page you can set some additional options for the current print job. Here you can specify to print to a file instead of printing on a printer. Unix hints are these still needed? If you want, you can use the STAR_SPOOL_DIR environment variable to specify the directory where the Xprinter spoolfiles are saved. For example: setenv STAR_SPOOL_DIR /usr/local/tmp (in the csh/tcsh) or export STAR_SPOOL_DIR=/usr/local/tmp (in the sh/bash) You can also use the spadmin printer setup program to specify additional printer options.