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preview feature to see how your printed output will look.
</para>
+
<sect1 id="printpreview">
<title>Print Preview</title>
<para>
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<para>
The printer selection window, shown in <xref
linkend="print-dest">, lets you choose the format for
- printing&mdash; <guilabel>Generic
- Postscript</guilabel>, whether to write to a PDF file, and whether to print
- to a file or to an actual printer in Generic Postscript. If you choose a printer,
- you'll be asked for the printer command (probably
- <guilabel>lpr</guilabel>) which your system uses. If you
- choose to print to a file, you'll need to decide upon a
- filename. And of course, you'll want to choose a number of
- copies, and whether to collate them.
+ printing&mdash; <guilabel>Generic Postscript</guilabel>,
+ whether to write to a PDF file, and whether to print to a file
+ or to an actual printer in Generic Postscript. If you choose a
+ printer, you'll be asked for the printer command (probably
+ <guilabel>lpr</guilabel>) which your system uses. If you
+ choose to print to a file, you'll need to decide upon a
+ filename. And of course, you'll want to choose a number of
+ copies, and whether to collate them.
+
<note id="windows-ps">
<title>Printing to PostScript?</title>
<para>
- If you're printing to PostScript, be careful. Windows cannot open up PostScript files. If you need your file to be read on a Windows, you should export to PDF.
+ PostScript is the file format used by most laser printers,
+ and in UNIX world is the easiest way to print to a file.
+ However, most systems running Microsoft Windows can't
+ recognize or handle PostScript files. You'll need to print
+ to PDF if you want to share your file with Windows users.
</para>
</note>
</para>