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Printer Setup

The Printer Setup dialog allows you configure the application's use of the printer.

The Printer Setup window contains:

The formats of the printer, margin and marginmap entries are:

	WPRINTER.printer-num: printer-name=command
	WMARGINMAP.margin-num: margin-name
	WMARGIN.margin-name: top botton right left

where:

To add a new Printer, select the next value for printer-num and add the printer line with the name and print command.

To add a Page Margins entry, select the next margin-num (leaving no gaps in the sequence) and add the two lines for marginmap and margins.

Printing generates PostScript data which is sent to the specified printer (or File). The names of fonts differs between the X Window System and PostScript and there is no formula to convert them. The printing system uses a font alias map to convert from X font names to PostScript font names. Font aliases for the common PostScript fonts are predefined but you must supply an alias for unknown fonts. The 'Font Alias' window will be shown when ever you are printing an unknown font. You will be asked to supply a PostScript font name for a X font. This information is saved in ~/.xtrkcad/xtrkcad.rc for the next use.

The font alias map entries look like:

	WFONT.X font name: PostScript font name


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