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Printing Documents ​

To print a document ​

  • File > Print… (Command-P)

To print part of a document ​

  • Select it, choose File > Print… (Command-P), and choose Selection in the print dialog

Paragraphs the selection only partly covers print whole.

To choose paper size and orientation ​

  • Open Page Attributes in the print dialog, or choose File > Page Setup… (Shift-Command-P)

Changes in the print dialog apply to that print only. Page Setup keeps them while the document is open.

To make a PDF ​

  • Choose Save as PDF in the print dialog
  • For a PDF with bookmarks, linked contents, and book typesetting, convert the document with Pandoc

The print dialog's WriteRoom section has these options. WriteRoom remembers them for next time.

  • Print Theme sets the colors on paper. System, the default, prints dark text on white. Choose Flexoki, Gruvbox, or Solarized to print in that theme's light colors.
  • Print header and footer puts the document's name at the top of each page and the page number at the bottom. It's on by default.
  • Start each Heading 1 on a new page starts a new page before each # heading, so each chapter begins on its own page. It's off by default.

What Prints ​

  • Your font from Typography, at 11 points
  • Markup hidden with Hide Formatting stays hidden
  • Folded sections stay folded, shown as ⋯
  • The selection and spelling marks don't print

See also ​