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Printing a document with AbiWord
Once you have entered and formatted your document, it is time to print it.
Since AbiWord is WYSIWYG (What You See is What You
Get, that is, what you see on the screen looks exactly
like what will be printed, first make sure that your document looks the
way you want it to (you may need to adjust the zoom to see the whole document
at once). To print, you have 3 possibilities:
- Go to the File menu and click on "Print"; or
- Click on the icon "Print the document"
or
- Use the keyboard shortcut by simultaneously pressing the
"Ctrl" and "P" keys;
In cases b. and c. the current document will immediately be
sent to the default printer. You can continue to work while
it is printing.
In case a. the following dialog box appears:

La boite de dialogue Impression
sous Microsoft Windows |

La boite de dialogue Impression
sous Linux |
This dialog box contains 3 group boxes:
* The Printer group box:
You can select the printer you want to print your document
on, by clicking on the list box next to "Name:";
The property button lets you modify the parameters bound to the printer,
such as the paper size used (A4, A5...), its orientation (portrait or landscape) and the
print quality.
In Unix, you select the printer by changing "lpr" to "lpr -Pprinter". You can
select the paper size by configuring your print filter; see /etc/printcap for
where that is.
If the "Print to file" option is checked,
the printing will not happen on the selected printer. This option will
generate a file which you can later print on another machine
which does not have AbiWord available. You must, however,
print it on the same model of printer that you selected
when you created it. In Unix, the file so created will be
a PostScript 2.0 file with the extension ".ps", which
you can print on any printer that understands PostScript or is
set up with Ghostscript as the print filter.
* The Page ranges box:
To print the whole document, you can simply
select the option "All x pages". Or you can
print only some pages by checking the option
"Pages" and then completing the field "From.....to...."
* The Copies box:
This lets you set how many copies of the
document to print. As to the "Collate" option, it lets you select,
if you print several times a document of several pages, whether
the pages or the documents will be grouped together.
Once you have selected the options you wish, confirm by clicking on the OK button,
or click on the Cancel button to not print. |