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## Printing

Since AbiWord is WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get), make sure the document looks the way you want it to (you may need to adjust the zoom to see the whole document at once).

To print, take one of the following actions:

1. Click on the icon "'Print". This will send the current document immediately to the default printer. You can continue to work while it is printing.
2. Go to the File menu and click on "Print".
3. Use the keyboard shortcut by simultaneously pressing the "Ctrl" and "P" keys.

The last two actions will produce a Print Dialog Box.

### Print Dialog Box

Windows

Windows Print Dialog Box

- Select the printer you want to use 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...), orientation (portrait or landscape) and print quality.

- Page range:
  - To print the whole document, select the option"All x pages".
  - To print only some pages, check the option"Pages" and then complete the field "From.....to...."
- Copies: This lets you select how many copies of the document to print.

  Once you have selected the options, confirm by clicking on the OK button, or click on the Cancel button to not print.

  Linux

  Linux Print Dialog Box

- 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.

- Page ranges:
  - To print the whole document, select the option"All x pages".
  - To print only some pages, check the option"Pages" and then complete the field "From.....to...."
- Collate: Select to have your printed copies collated.

- Copies: This lets you select how many copies of the document to print.

  Once you have selected the options, confirm by clicking on the OK button, or click on the Cancel button to not print.