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Windows displays the Print dialog box. Those options which are greyed out are not available when printing from Plan-
etPress Design. Any options, such as the paper size or media type, you may set by clicking the Preferences button
are managed by the Windows print driver. Although PlanetPress Design provides available to the Windows print driver,
it cannot ensure that these options will be correctly applied.
2. From the Select Printer box, select the printer to which you want to print.
3. To print to a file, select the Print to file option.
4. Select the data pages you want to use for the printout in the Page range group. Bear in mind that you are selecting
data pages, so the number of actual pages being printed will vary based on such things as the number of data pages
selected, the amount of data on each page, on the number of pages in the document, as well as page conditions.
All: Select to use all data pages (or in the case of a database emulation, all record sets) in the sample data file. It is
important to understand that this refers to data pages and not document pages. The presence or absence of an individ-
ual document page in the printout depends on the condition, if any, set on the page.
Pages: Select to specify the range of data pages in the sample data file that you want to use for this printout. In the
edit box to the right of the radio button, enter the number of the first data page followed by a hyphen and then by the
number of the last data page in the range of data pages you want to use for the printout.
5. To print multiple copies, enter a value in the Number of copies edit box or use the spin buttons.
6. Click OK.
The dialog box is closed and the print job is sent to the selected printer
Because of the way in which Windows Driver Output works, if a partial job has already been sent to the printer and an
error occurs that stops the output in PlanetPress Design, the partial job will continue to print. This is because Plan-
etPress has no way to tell Windows to stop its printing and remove the job from its printer queue.
Printing Using a Windows Driver
Can I print using a Windows driver and how does it differ from other printing methods?
PlanetPress Design lets you print your document and data using any Windows printer driver. Note that this option generates
large print files and that it therefore does not provide the same level of speed and performance as the Optimized PostScript
Stream and Printer Centric methods (the latter being the fastest and most efficient). See "Print Using a Windows Driver" (page
664).
Generate a Soft Proof
Soft proofs are document previews that show no watermarks. Each soft proof has a maximum of 10 pages, so if your Plan-
etPress Design document has only 1 page, the soft proof can show as many as 10 records, but if your document has 10 pages,
the soft proof can show only a single record.
As with document previews, soft proofs must be generated one output type at a time. If your document contains more than
one output type, you must preview each separately.
Note that if you look at a document that uses one of the 35 standard PostScript fonts and that includes the Euro glyph, you are
likely to find out that although this glyph is displayed at design time it does not show up in previews. If this is the case, faxes
and archives generated usingPlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools will also lack this glyph. Try printing to see if the printer is able
to recognize and print this glyph.
To generate a soft proof:
Document Output and Preview
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