Printing A Document

The Print command can be invoked 3 ways:

No matter how you do this, the KDE print dialog will appear.



The top drop down box labeled Name: shows the currently selected printer. To configure this printer click on the Properties... button.

To select a different printer, click on the dropdown box and select the desired printer.

If you want to print your output into a postscript file, to a PDF file, a fax modem (to send it as a fax) or email the file as a PDF file, select the appropriate option from the dropdown box. Once that option has been selected, enter the filename into the text box labled Output File:.

The line labled Print system currently used: determines how KWord interacts with your computer and any attached printers. Complete setup of the printing system is beyond the scope of this document. For more information see the KDE print web site at http://printing.kde.org.

If you want to print all pages of your document and only one copy, you can click OK. If you want to change the number of copies or only print selected pages, click Expand

Note

Depending on which printing system your computer uses, you may find that you have more printing options then those described below. What is described here, is available on most systems.

Once you click Expand, the dialog box changes to:



Under Page Selection, you can select either to print the whole document (select All), print the page the cursor is located on (simply select Current), or print a range of pages. If you select the Print Range option, enter your page range in the text box provided. (Example: 3-13)

In the drop down box labeled Page Set: you can tell KWord to print the Even pages, the Odd pages or All pages.

In the box on the right labeled Copies:, you should set the number of copies you want printed. You can either enter the number directly into the box, or use the arrows to adjust the number. KWord can print a maximum of 999 copies at once.

You can have KDE collate your documents by clicking on the Collate check box. If selected, KDE will print all of the pages for copy 1, then print all the pages for copy 2, etc. If not selected, KDE will print all of the copies of the first page, then all of the copies of the second page, etc.

You can also determine if the document is printed in forward order (print first page first), or reverse order (print last page first).

If you click on Collapse, the print dialog will compress down to the previous view.

When you are satisfied with your selections, you can click OK to print.

If you click on Cancel, the printing will be aborted.