Print dialog

 

Allows to print the selected file names. The same dialog is used to print a directory tree and the result of a comparison in 'Synchronize dirs'. The dialog contains the following elements:

 

Font: Select the font you want to use to print the file list. The print preview is reformatted every time you choose a different font name, size, or attributes (Bold, Italic etc).

Hint: Some printer fonts do not exist on the display, and are shown by other substituting fonts. This means that the display will look different than the printer output. However, the letter spacing will be the same as on the printer, because each letter is drawn individually on screen.

 

Show: Determines the display mode in the preview window. These settings have no effect on printing itself. The upper combobox allows to choose the page to be shown, and the lower the display size in the preview window.

 

<printer name> If you have multiple printers, you can choose the current printer here. Depending on the printer, the available fonts, the character spacing and page borders may be different. Therefore it's important to choose the correct printer BEFORE printing, not in the dialog appearing after pushing on the print button. Otherwise the print preview and print will not be identical!

 

Setup... Here you can set the page format, resolution and other printing parameters. These settings should also be chosen at the beginning, because they can affect the page layout. If you always use the same settings, you can set them as the default in Control Panel - Printers.

 

Margins... Here you set the page margins as well as the content of the header. If you set the borders to 0, Total Commander will automatically use the smallest possible borders supported by the current printer. You can set the borders also by dragging the border lines in the print preview window.

You can also define a header with the following parameters:

%p Current page

%t Total number of pages

%d Base directory of the list

%D Current date

%T Current time (at the moment of printing)

%% The percent sign

 

Print... Opens a dialog box to start the actual printing. It also allows to set the print range:

All Print all pages

Pages Print only certain pages

Selection Prints the current page.

 

Duplex A special print mode to print on both sides of the page, to save paper. Total Commander first prints every second page and then asks to re-insert the just printed pages to print on their back. The paper has to be inserted so the page printed first will again be printed on first, but this time on its back!

 

<Preview window>

Shows the print preview and allows to set the margins with the mouse. If you don't want a header, you need to turn it off by setting the header text to an empty string in the dialog box 'Margins'.