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The page layout determines how a document is sent to the printer or
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saved as PostScript. When a document is printed or saved as PostScript,
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each page that contains a part of the drawing is printed respectively
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The Print menu contains the following entries:
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You can send the drawing directly to a PostScript printer with this
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command. The default printer is the value of the printer name in the
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TCM configuration file $HOME/.tcmrc or $TCM_HOME/lib/tcm.conf. When
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this value is not set, the printer will be set to the value of the
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PRINTER environment variable. In the Printer Options submenu you can
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see and modify the printer settings that are used.
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This pops up a file selection dialog for saving the picture to some
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graphics format. Currently you can save as plain PostScript (the same
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as what is sent directly to the printer), Encapsulated PostScript
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(EPSF), PNG or the Fig format. EPSF is a format that is more suitable than
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plain PostScript for including drawings into LaTeX or Troff documents.
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The PNG format is a picture format comparable to the GIF format. It
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can be included in most Word Processors and viewed by most web-browsers.
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The Fig format can be read by the popular xfig drawing program.
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In the dialog there is an option menu called "Format for exported
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document", in which you can set the intended output format.
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Starts up an external PostScript viewer, for instance ghostview, for
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previewing the document as it would be printed.
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Use this option to see the printer queue of the current printer in a
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pop-up window. By clicking on a line in the queue you select a print
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job. The "Remove" button tries to remove the selected job from the
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queue. "Update" redisplays the current queue. "Dismiss" removes the
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window. The toolkit uses external Unix programs for the printer queue.
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If it cannot find the right programs, it warns that the queue cannot be
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viewed or that jobs cannot be removed.
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This is a menu that contains some options for the printer. The default
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values are read from the configuration file $HOME/.tcmrc (if it exists)
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or from $TCM_HOME/lib/tcm.conf otherwise. In the Printer Options menu
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these values can be changed temporarily i.e. only during the lifetime
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of the editor. If you want to save the changed options you have to edit
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the TCM configuration file. The TCM configuration file is only read
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when an editor is started.
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The following print options can be changed:
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The name of the PostScript printer.
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How many copies are printed each time you print.
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Unix command to print files.
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Printer queue command.
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Unix command to show the printer queue.
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Printer remove command.
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Unix command to remove a print job from the printer queue.
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Unix command to launch an external PostScript viewer.
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Print colors (on) or print in gray-scale (off).
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Causes the output to be printed in duplex mode, i.e. pages are printed
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two-sided if the printer supports that. The binding is as if the
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resultant pages are to be bound together with their leftmost edge.
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This option is only useful with the Duplex option on. It causes the
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"backside" pages to be flipped relative to the front side pages.
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Print banner page options.
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You can choose between printing the default printer banner page,
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no banner page at all, or a special TCM banner page (that can be found
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in $TCM_HOME/lib/banner.ps).
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The Page menu commands determine the page layout. Any change in page
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layout is directly made visible in the drawing area. The page layout
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has effect when plain PostScript is generated either when the document
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is printed, previewed or exported as plain PostScript. The Page menu
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commands have no effect on the document when saved as Encapsulated
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PostScript, as this format is independent from the page layout by
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definition. The Page menu contains the following entries:
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Sets the page orientation to Portrait (default) or Landscape. When
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the page boundaries are shown, you see that the boundaries are
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Draw or hide the page boundary. The positions of the boundaries are
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determined by the page size and the page orientation.
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Sets the page size. The current available sizes are
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A4 (default, 210x297 mm.), A3 (297x420 mm.), Letter (8.5x11 inches),
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Legal (8.5x14 inches) and Executive (7.5x10 inches).
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Include Page Numbers.
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This is an option in the Page menu to show page numbers. Page numbers
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will be shown and printed when that option is on. Page numbers are
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normally displayed at the bottom of the page, but when the document
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info is displayed as a footer, page numbers are displayed at the top of
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Include Document Info.
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This is a toggle menu which makes it possible to show information
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about the document in the drawing area and on paper. This information
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can be added as a header or as a footer. The information consists of
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the document name and type, the creation date and time, the author,
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the current tool, the current user and the current date and time.
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