This dialog box lets you change a variety of print options.
Most of them should be fairly obvious; details can be found
in the description of ``Print DVI ...'' on page .
The option you'll most often want to change is the page range.
The two scroll bars control the first and final pages.
prevents you from choosing a first page greater than the final page.
Play around with the scroll bars but restore their values so that every
page will be printed.
Click in the Print button or hit Return to start printing.
If the printer is found then a status box will appear and keep you
up-to-date on your job's progress and the state of the printer.
As each page is translated into PostScript its DVI/TEX page
numbers are displayed in the window.
You can't actually print every page in
nasty.dvi
because there
is a deliberate error that makes this impossible.
The first 11 pages should not cause any problems (assuming you're using
A4 paper) but the rest will generate nearly every type of error message
you're ever likely to encounter.
You should eventually get up to page 17 where a deliberate PostScript error
in a \special
file will prevent any further pages being printed.
( may start translating page 18 before the error is seen.)
The above dialog box also lets you send
the PostScript output to a file instead of the printer.
This file is an ordinary text file with a default name of nasty.ps
.
A warning: the PostScript code generated by is resolution-dependent.
If you send this code to a PostScript device with a resolution different
to that of the current printer resolution parameter
then the output might look a little strange.
A note for PostScript hackers: begins the PostScript output by
copying the contents of a file called DVItoPS.pro (kept in the PS-files folder).
will also look for a file called global.ps in the current
folder and, if found, include its contents at the end of DVItoPS.pro.
For example, global.ps in the PS-files folder shows how you can
get the word ``DRAFT'' printed in the background on every page.