Prints a selected DVI file.
After selecting the DVI file you'll be presented with a dialog box that
depends on the current printer and the settings of ``Use Standard PostScript''
and ``Use DVIPS'' (these flags are described later).
The dialog box for low-level PostScript printing (see page
)
lets you change these printing options:
- The page range.
The first and final pages are controlled by separate scroll bars; their
current values are displayed in the form ``DVI page/[TEX page]''.
- The paper orientation (landscape or portrait).
- The page order (reverse or normal).
- Printer memory management (conserve VM or not).
VM is PostScript's ``virtual memory'' and the output generated by can
consume an awful lot of it, especially if your document uses a large number
of non-PostScript fonts.
If you get a ``
VMerror
'' when printing a document then try again with
the conserve VM option checked.
You should only need to do this for a very unusual document,
like a font catalog.
- The paper source (manual feed or normal input tray).
- Whether or not to show statistics about font, rule and
\special
usage.
- Whether or not to make missing PK fonts.
- The number of copies of each page.
- The page increment.
The primary purpose of this option is to simplify the printing of a document
on both sides of the paper. If the first page is 1 and an increment
of 2 is chosen then will print pages 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
Depending on how your printer stacks the output, you can then put these pages
back into the input tray and print the DVI file again using the same increment
but starting from the second DVI page
(and reversing the page order; this will not effect which pages
are printed but simply changes the order in which they are done).
- The DVI magnification
(expressed as an integer 1000 times the desired magnification).
You should use the default value unless you know what you're doing.
If the DVI file uses non-PostScript fonts then you should probably stick
to the numbers corresponding to TEX's
\magstep
values; i.e.,
1000, 1095, 1200, 1440, etc.
See Chapters 4 and 10 in The TEXbook for details.
A document using only PostScript fonts can be printed at almost any
magnification ( allows values from 1 to 10000).
What happens next depends on which dialog button you select.
The default Print button will send the PostScript output to the current printer.
A status box will appear and indicate what is happening to your job and
warn you about any printer problems.
Or you might prefer to save the PostScript output to a given text file.
Any change to a check box option will be remembered the next time you
print a DVI file, unless you decide to Cancel the dialog.
The dialog boxes for standard PostScript printing (see page
)
and non-PostScript printing (see page
)
let you change various options specific to the current printer.
adds some extra items at the bottom of the dialog so you
can change the page increment or DVI magnification,
and decide whether or not to reverse the page order, show statistics,
or make missing PK fonts.
Regardless of which printing method decides to use, the messages
displayed in the window are almost identical.
The DVI/TEX page numbers are displayed as each page is processed.
Any error messages or statistics apply to the most recently displayed
page numbers (although this is not true for messages sent back by a PostScript
printer because these occur asynchronously).
At any time you can hit Command-C or Command-Dot to cancel printing,
or you can switch to another application and will continue to print
in the background.