$(cpicName) Help - Printing
The print feature lets you send any image or batch of images to your printer. You have control over sizes, margins, headers, and footers. The interactive preview helps to make changing settings easy. |
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Printing Options To print an image or images, select the image(s) in the File List and click the 'Print' button on the main toolbar. You can also select Print from the File menu.
To print an image from within the Image Viewer, select Print from the File menu in the Image Viewer.
The Print window contains two main areas, a print preview and a section of layout and page options.
Many of the functions of the layout options can be performed using the interactive print preview.
Print Preview
The print preview area displays an interactive preview of
what your printout will look like. This allows you to easily
change settings to get the right look on the first try.
The preview is interactive because you can click and drag areas of the preview to quickly adjust settings. The background for the preview will be a white area which represents the page size. On top of this is your image. |
Around the image is a dotted rectangle with knobs at each corner and side. Click and drag any of these knobs to change the size of the image. Changes you make this way will recalculate the margins and image size (explained under Layout Options, below).
Also in the preview area are buttons for the next, previous, first and last pages (to check the layout of other pages when printing multiple pages of images). The 'Print Now' button starts the printing, and 'Cancel' aborts the print.
Layout Options
The layout options control the placement of the image on the page.
The fields for top margin, left margin, width and height can be set manually (in inches), or can be calculated automatically by adjusting the image in the print preview. Top Margin is the amount of space from the top of the page to the top of the image. |
Image Width and Height determine the size of the image on the page.
The Stretch images to frame box determines if the image is shown using actual proportions, or is distorted to fit the rectangle outlined in the print preview. Checking this box will cause the image to fill the area outlined in the preview, which may distort the image.
The Force to 75 dpi box will set the image to 75 dots per inch, a standard setting for printing images. This may affect the size of your image. If you are resizing your image manually in the preview or using the width and height fields, leave this unchecked.
Page Options
Page options allow you to add headers, footers, borders, and
shadows to your printout. The buttons in this area will open the
Text String Editor which is covered in a special
section of the help.
The 'Page Header' button sets the text to be displayed at the top of the page, above all the images. The 'Page Footer' button sets the text to be displayed at the bottom of the page, below all the images. |
The 'Image Headers' and 'Image Footers' buttons set the text that appears above and below each individual image. The text you specify here will appear right around the image.
'Border' will add a thin black border to your image. 'Shadows' will add a drop shadow.
Print Setup
The 'Print Setup' button will open your printer's setup so that you may set things such as orientation and quality. |
The window that appears when you click the 'Print Setup' button is dependant on your particular printer. Consult your printer's documentation for help with this screen.
Starting the Print
Click on the 'Print Now' button under the print preview to start the printing.
Printing Batch Images
Follow the instructions above to configure the settings for your print. The settings you choose will be applied to all pages printed.
You can move to other pages in the batch using the first, previous, next, and last page buttons under the print preview.
Note: batch printing will print each image on a seperate page. To print multiple images on a single page, use the Picture Index utility.
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