Page imaging and scaling

Printing pages as images

If you do not need to 'proof-print' the pages, but just want to print what is shown on the screen, then it may be appropriate to print the pages as images even when they contain text. It enables prints to be made on printers which have unhelpful font-handling characteristics. This usually results in larger files, but if the pages use many different fonts or bulky fonts (e.g. Chinese), the resulting files may actually be smaller.

Scaled printing

Most printers cannot print over an entire page, so always leave the edges of the pages blank. The size of this "unprintable area" varies from printer to printer, so that a page which prints perfectly on one printer may be cropped on another. To cope with this, EscapeE has a scaling feature to ensure that the printing fits in the "printable area" of your printer.

See Printing for details of the Print to file option.