/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 MW deleted "selections;" 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. 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. Opens the printer properties dialog.The printer properties vary according to the printer that you select. Enables all sheets to be printed. In the "Print range" area of the dialog, you can restrict this output to some given pages. Enables the selected sheets to be printed. In the "Print range" area of the dialog, you can restrict this output to some given pages. Enables the selected cells to be printed. In the "Print range" area of the dialog, you can restrict this output to some given pages. Select whether you want to print Slides, Handouts, Notes, or Outline. For handouts, select the number of slides to print per page of paper. For handouts, enable to print in a horizontal order first. For handouts, enable to print in a vertical order first. Prints the entire document. Prints only the pages that you specify in the Pages box. 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 only the selected area(s) or object(s) in the current document. Enter the number of copies that you want to print. Preserves the page order of the original document. %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. For brochure printing, you can select a left-to-right order of pages or a right-to-left order. 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. Prints to a file instead of to a printer. When this option is enabled, the Print button is renamed to Print to file... 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.