Controlling Printing

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Writer Guide

Chapter 5: Printing, Exporting, Faxing, and Emailing

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• Introduction
• Quick Printing
• Controlling Printing
  • Selecting General Printing Options for a Document
  • Printing Multiple Pages on a Single Sheet of Paper
  • Selecting What to Print
  • Printing a Brochure
  • Printing in Black and White (on a Color Printer)
  • Previewing Pages Before Printing
• Printing Envelopes
• Printing Labels
• Exporting to PDF
  • Quick Export to PDF
  • Controlling PDF Content and Quality
    • General tab of PDF Options Dialog Box
    • Initial View Tab of PDF Options Dialog Box
    • User Interface Tab of PDF Options Dialog Box
    • Links Tab of PDF Options Dialog Box
    • Security Tab of PDF Options Dialog Box
• Exporting to XHTML
• E-mailing Writer Documents
  • E-mailing a Document to Several Recipients
• Digital Signing of Documents
• Removing Personal Data

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Controlling Printing

For more control over printing, use the Print dialog box (File → Print or  Ctrl  +  P ).

Figure 1: The Print dialog General page

The Print dialog box has four tabs, from which you can choose a range of options, as described in the following sections.

The options selected on the Print dialog box apply to this printing of this document only. To specify default printing settings for AOO, go to Tools → Options → OpenOffice – Print and Tools → Options → OpenOffice Writer – Print. See Chapter 2 (Setting Up Writer) for more details.