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Printer parameters that cannot be controlled in the print parameters window can be changed using the standard Workbench PrinterGfx preferences utility.
Window | The document will appear exactly as it is displayed in the window. This means that if the document contains wide objects (tables, images) that fall outside the window, these objects will fall off the paper, too. |
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Document | The document takes the full paper width (unless you scale down). Even if the document contains wide items, the printout will contain all the information. Note that in this case, the document will be laid out again as if it was displayed in a window wide enough to contain all the items. Because of this, it may appear differently from the exact layout as currently displayed in the window. If the document takes up less space than the current window width, it will appear blown up on the paper, because the document is made to take up the full paper width. |
Screen | The document is printed as if the screen would take up the paper width. This will produce more uniformly sized printouts, regardless of the current window width or document width. The document is laid out again so the exact layout may differ from that in the window. Note that if the document is wider than the screen, some information will still fall off the paper. |
If this checkbox is not selected, the background of the page will not be printed, but is left white instead. Furthermore, to gain maximum readability all text is printed in black. The printout of embedded images is not affected.
While the document is being printed, you can go on and visit other documents. You cannot start another print though, you will either have to wait until the current printout is ready, or cancel it.
You will have to change the screenmode that AWeb is using, and optionally select to load a spread palette. Then printing shouldn't be a problem.
As soon as printer drivers become available that can handle more than 256 colours, like those that come with OS 3.5, you can print from screens with more colours directly.
Technically AWeb could convert everything down to 8-bit, but that
would be slow (all images on the page have to be remapped), would require more
options (like load spread palette, and the option to disable the conversion
if the user has a >8 bit capable printer driver), the remapping of datatypes
would need a real visible screen instead of the off-screen bitmap AWeb uses now
(datatypes need a Screen to remap themselves to), and would of course make the
executable bigger. I don't think applications should kludge around a limitation
in other software this way.
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