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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:
  1. Go to the File menu and click on "Print"; or
  2. Click on the icon "Print the document" Print the document or
  3. 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:

Print dialog Box with Microsoft Windows

La boite de dialogue Impression sous Microsoft Windows

Print dialog Box with Linux

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.