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1.13 Print File Hot Key Ctrl-P
This selection lets you to print the waypoints in spreadsheet form. The printing dialog box gives you a chance to set
some basic printing parameters relating to how the material is printed. It also includes a button to select a WINDOWS
PRINTER SETUP dialog that presumably allows you to choose which printer to print on. This does not always work,
so be sure to set up the desired printer as your default printer. To change what is printed, use PRINTING FORMAT
below. Remember, the fields printed and their order follow the Printing Format shown below, not the display format.
This is necessary since you cannot horizontally scroll the printed page like you can the display nor is the screen the same
size and shape as the page. You can print landscape if you want more data per line but you still can't get all 14 columns
on a single line.
1.14 Printing Format
Here you can specify the fields (columns) to be printed and their order. You can also select standard or bold font, grid
lines and Black and White or Colors.
You can select any combination of fields to print. If the Comments field is selected, the printout will take an extra line
per waypoint as this field has 90 characters. Some other combinations or a large font will result in two or three line
printing, so watch the indicator to see how much of the width of the page is used and how many waypoints per page are
possible. Clicking on field names in the left or right box and then pushing the Add or Remove buttons selects fields to
print. After the field selection is completed, the program will space out the fields on the paper to even out the white
space.
The page margins for printing can be set in this window and they will influence the fit of the fields chosen. If the bottom
margin is not big enough in Portrait mode or the right margin in Landscape mode, some of the printing may spill over to
another page. So if you get two or more pages for each one you expected, increase the bottom or right margin value to
about 1". What happens is that as the page information is sent to the printer in layers, any layer that strays beyond the
bottom of the printable area will cause the printer to issue a page feed. The printer cannot back up to finish the job on
the original page, so it simply prints the rest on another page. This will not show up on the print preview, however.
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