Re: "Print" to slot 3 in AppleWorks?

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

Re:

> Subject: "Print" to slot 3 in AppleWorks?  Thu, 4 Apr 1996 20:29:39
> From: Jim.Low@logicbbs.org
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> 
> Is there any way to "print" to slot 3 in AppleWorks 5.x? I know you
> can specify the "Print to Screen" -- but that sets the page length
> to a screen length.

No it doesn't.

> I'd like to specify the layout for a real printer, with appropriate
> page lengths, but "preview" it first on the screen.

This is exactly what AppleWorks 5.x "Print to Screen" tries to do.

When you print to screen, the result is similar to what you'd see
on paper, but it's presented a screenful at a time, and -- if the
left margin is set wide enough -- only the leftmost part of the
printed text is shown.

To demonstrate, set up a document with a "footer" and tell it to
print page numbers within the "footer." When you tell AW to print
to screen, you'll see two or three screens, then a screen with the
footer and the page number, for each page of your text. If you use
CI=12 or P1 and sufficiently wide margin settings, you'll see the
rightmost part of each line is truncated (i.e., the rightmost part
of each line is "off the screen").

If you ask for P1 (proportional printing) AW cannot, of course,
show correct proportional output on the screen, but it does show
the correct characters/words at the leftmost end of each line.

This print to screen function is VERY handy to test printing with-
out wasting paper. My only complaint is, if you are previewing
several pages of a long document and you get to a page where you
see something that you want to change, ESCaping out of the print
function does NOT leave you at the location where you saw the need
for editing. Oh well, that's just the way AW works.

- Jim Pittman - University of New Mexico - casa@unm.edu