Working with Files

Printing

The File > Print action will pull up a Windows-standard print dialog, from which you can choose your printer and send your text to the selected printer. Normally, it will print the whole document, but you can use the print dialog to choose only certain pages; if you have an active selection in the editor, only the selected text will be printed.

The printing of the text is affected by the Settings > Preferences > Print settings, where you can decide things like whether or not to include line numbers in the printout, margin widths, extra text to print in the header and/or footer of every page, and the Colour Options will determine how your Style Configurator theme’s colors will be propagated to the printed output. It is up to you as the user to decide which printing settings are best to meet your needs, and will look best on your printed medium of choice. Please note that with any themes with colored backgrounds, some of those colors will be printed to the background of your printed page unless you choose one of the Colour Options that does not print the background color; but with darker themes, which use light text on dark backgrounds, if you don’t have it print the background color, then it will be very light text on your white paper. If you have a printer which allows you to print to PDF, that is a good way to see what the printout will really look like without using the paper and ink (and if you don’t have a PDF printer available, your favorite search engine will show you plenty of commercial and freeware PDF printers by searching for something like “windows PDF printer” or “print to PDF”).