Color Printing

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ramonsky
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Color Printing

Post by ramonsky »

The syntax highlighting in Textpad is really great. But it's a pity that you lose it all the moment you click on "Print". I would love to see all those colors retained when you print the document.

Anyone else?
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Anyone else?

No, everyone else who wants to print in color simply sets the check in the checkbox
Configure - Preferences - Document Classes - YourDocumentClass - Printing - In Color
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Post by ramonsky »

Yikes. Guess I just showed off my ignorance there!

Maybe we should just forget this idea then and put it down to a bad case of RTFM.

Apologies,
Jill
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Post by kaimiddleton »

I think this is another example of the non-intuitive nature of the UI. The principle of least-surprise applies here. Usually you look for the obvious way to do it (i.e. look in the print-dialogue) and if it's not there you often go on to something more important. I did find help under "color printing" and noted it took 14 steps to accomplish the result! Hence my desire to see TextPad printing reformed. Here is where I posted my printing discussion:
http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4718
--Kai
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