Print Dialog
Print Dialog:
- Output optionmenu
- The user can send the current page to one of two destinations:
a printer or a postscript file.
- Print Command entry / Filename entry
- If the page is being sent to a printer, then this is the command
used to print the page. The command must be able to read
postscript as standard input. lpr should work fine in most
cases.
If the page is being sent to a file, then the filename is
set here.
- Paper Size optionmenu
- The user can set the size of the paper being printed on here.
The available choices are:
- Stamp Display
- A miniature version of the page being printed is shown here.
This helps the user visualize how the final drawing will appear
on the paper.
- Orientation optionmenu
- One of "Portrait" or "Landscape" may be chosen here.
- Color Mode optionmenu
- This sets the color mode of the output image. One of "color",
"Greyscale", or "Black and White" may be chosen here. Note:
the current configuration will not allow color images to
be sent to the printer.
- Stretch To Fit checkbutton
- Selecting this button will cause the image to be stretched to fill
the entire page in either the X or Y direction. The current setup
will not allow non-uniform stretching.
- Posterize checkbutton and entries
- Selecting this button will allow the user to create giant
posters of the image. The entry areas should be filled in with
the size, in complete paper pages, of the output image. When
printed, the image will expanded to fill the desired number
of pages.
- Print button
- Press this button to print the page
- Refresh button
- Pressing this button will cause the stamp image in the center
of the print dialog to be refreshed. This will allow the user to
make changes to the actual page before printing it.
- Cancel button
- Pressing this button will cause the print dialog box to close
without printing the image.