Printing
Tutorial Exercise 1.4: Printing a Graph Visualization
You can print a graph on a PostScript® printer directly from
uDraw(Graph) to get the current layout on paper.
For this operation the
print dialog
window is needed which will appear after selecting menu
File/Print...
(or by pressing the printer button of the icon bar).
But this time we will use the keyboard instead of the mouse
for choosing this menu operation.
Press the keys ALT and f simultaneously which is usually written
as ALT+F.
This will open the
File menu.
f is the underlined character (mnemonic) of the "File" menu, the
keyboard equivalent for mouseless operation.
After opening the menu with these two keys, you can navigate
through all menus with the four cursor keys of the keyboard.
By pressing the RETURN (or ENTER) key, you select the currently
highlighted menu entry.
In an opened menu, you have another option to choose from a menu
by pressing the mnemonic character (at this time without the ALT key!)
of one of the shown menu entries.
For example, when the "File" menu is open, you select the Print...
entry by pressing the p key.
So the overall keyboard command to select this particular menu
from start is ALT+F P (upper case letters are not significant here,
so do not use the SHIFT key here).
You can read
more about keyboard usage
by following this reference.
After opening the
print dialog
window with one of the methods described above, you have the
opportunity to set some options before the file is actually printed.
Let us assume that you want to print the currently loaded graph
on one of the PostScript® printers in your network.
First of all, you need to know the command used for printing
PostScript® files at your site.
For example, if you usually use the UNIX® command
| lpr -P our_ps_printer my_file.ps |
to print file my_file.ps on printer our_ps_printer, you have
to enter "lpr -P our_ps_printer" in the "Print Command" field
of the print dialog.
Please read the
print options
if you are not sure what to enter here, especially on a
Windows® platform.
Be sure that you have set the correct page size supported by
your printer.
If this is not the default format A4 then choose another setting
with the "Page Size" option button and press the "Fit to Page"
button afterwards to ensure that the graph will be completely
visible and centered on the paper.
Finally, you can send the graph in PostScript® format to
the printer by pressing the print push button.
End of Exercise 1.4.
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