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features a powerful print utility with an interactive preview. 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. | -->

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. |

You can click on the image and drag it around the page to change the position of the image on the paper.

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. |

Left Margin is the amount of space from the left edge of the paper to the left edge of the image.

Image Width and Heightdetermine 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.

TheForce to --- dpi box will set the image to the specified 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 allows you to cue multiple images for printing. Simply select the image you'd like to print, and click the 'Print' button on the main toolbar, or select Print from the File menu.

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.

Related Topics

- Text String Editor
- Picture Indexes
- Main Toolbar