Tutorial : Preview and Print a Script

Once the Print Style has been set in the Page Setup dialog, we're ready for printing. We can use the Print Preview function to see what the formatted pages are going to look like on the printer, and then use the Print Script command to actually print the script to the printer.

Print Preview

To get an idea of what the printed script is going to look like, use the Print Preview window (pictured at right).

Show how to open the Print Preview window

The currently set margins are displayed as dotted blue lines, with the text formatted as closely as possible to that of the printed page. For multiple-page scripts, the Previous Page and Next Page buttons enable you to choose which page is displayed.

Notice all of the settings from the Print Style we created are displayed: the margins are shown, the line breaks and font are the same as the prompter, a header is shown with the file name, date, and page number, and the text is printed as black on a white background.

If it looks okay, the next step is to go ahead and print.


Print

When you're ready to print the script, use the Print command, which opens the Print dialog (pictured below).

Show how to open the Print dialog



This dialog box may look differently, depending on whether you're running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, and depending on what printers you have installed on your computer.

For all situations, you can choose which printer to use, whether to print all pages, a page range, or the current selection, and how many total copies to print.

For our exercise, select your current printer in the list, click All for the page range, and choose 1 for the number of copies. Then, click Print to start the printing process. The print job will be loaded into the Windows Print Spooler, and subsequently printed on your printer.