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Printing Your Document

Printing your document can be very easy--or very difficult. For the easy version, just press the printer icon on the Main toolbar (see Figure 7.9).

Figure 7.9
The printer icon on the Main toolbar immediately prints the current document.

The current document is printed immediately, without even opening a dialog box.

That is, the document is printed if you have printing correctly configured on your Linux system and a valid printer driver selected and configured in StarOffice.

Unfortunately, if you haven't yet set up printing in Linux, it's beyond the scope of this book to describe how to do it. Some information is provided in Hour 4. For complete information, check out a copy of Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours .

Your Linux system probably has a printer setup utility of some sort. You can also edit the /etc/printcap file in a text editor--this is the "difficult" version of printing your document.

If your Linux printing is working, you can set a few other options for printing your document beyond pressing the printer icon on the toolbar.

Before you print a document, you might want to see how it will look on the printed page. You can do this by choosing Page View/Print preview from the File menu while you're viewing a document. Figure 7.10 shows a Page View.

Figure 7.10
A Page View of your document shows how it will look on a printed page.

You need to uncheck the Page View/Print preview item in the File menu if you want to continue editing your document.

When the page view looks right, you can print your document by choosing Print from the File menu. The Print dialog box appears (see Figure 7.11); you can select several printing options before choosing OK to send your document to the printer.

Options that you can set include the printer queue to print the document to, which pages to print, and how many copies to print.

If you need to change the printer setup before printing, you can choose Cancel to close the Print dialog box and choose the Print Setup dialog box from the File menu. In addition to these printing options, a few other options can be found in the General Options dialog box (described in Hour 4), and in the Text Document Options dialog box, which is described in the following section.

Figure 7.11
The Print dialog box enables you to set several options before printing your document.

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