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Printing with Windows

Previewing your printout

Select the Print Preview check box on the Main menu when you wish to view a preview of your document before printing.

Note:

This feature is not available for Windows 3.1.

When you send a print job to the printer, the Print Preview window opens, allowing you to make changes before printing.

The Preview dialog box contains several icon buttons which you can use to perform the following functions.

	Selection	Click this button to select and move watermarks.
	Zoom	Click this button to enlarge or reduce the size of the previewed page.
	Fit-to-screen	Click this button to scale the previewed page so that it fits the size of the window. This is convenient when you want to see the entire page at one time.
	Maximum zoom	Click this button to display the previewed page at the maximum possible zoom ratio.
	Printable area on/off	Click this button to display a rectangle on the page being previewed. This rectangle is the printable area for the page. The printer cannot print anything which is outside of this rectangle. Click the button again to turn this feature off.
	Watermark	Click this button to open the Watermark Settings dialog box, where you can change any of the current watermark settings.
	Reset watermark settings	Click this button to return all watermark settings to what they were when the Print Preview window was first opened. If nothing has been changed, this feature is not available.
	Previous page	Click this button to display the page previous to the one currently being previewed. If there is no previous page, this feature is not available.
	Next page	Click this button to display the next page in the document. If there is no next page, this feature is not available.

You can also manipulate the previewed document in the following ways:

• Select and preview individual pages.

• Reduce or enlarge the size of the preview.

• Select and print any or all pages.

• Magnify the previewed document. To do this, click View and then Magnify to open the Magnify window, which magnifies the area of the previewed document that is outlined by the red box. By dragging the red box, you can change which part of the document is magnified.

• View the individual pages that comprise a poster. The Poster window opens automatically when you send a print job while Poster is selected as the Multi-Page option on the Layout menu. From this window, you can view the individual pages which make up a poster. You can also open this dialog box by clicking View and then Poster.

• Apply watermarks. The watermark that you select will be displayed on the previewed image. For detailed information on customizing watermarks, see Printing a watermark on your document.

• Specify which pages in the document you would like to print using the Add and Remove features. To add or remove a page, click the page icon in the list at the left side of the preview window. Then, add or remove it using the commands on the Print Options menu. The Print Options menu commands are as follows.

	Add page	Click this button to add the highlighted pages to the list of pages to be printed.
	Remove page	Click this button to remove the highlighted pages from the list of pages to be printed.

After you have previewed the document, click Print to print the document, or click Cancel to cancel printing.

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