To Use the Print Dialog Box
1. Click
on the
Graphtool window.
2. Select the output format by choosing from these formats: Microsoft Print Manager, PostScript (Vector), HPGL2, TIFF, BMP, Encapsulated PostScript, JPEG.
3. Select the printer. To configure the printer, click Properties.
4. Select the paper size. You can also set the custom paper size by selecting Variable in mm or Variable in Inch from the Size list and entering the width and height dimensions.
5. Select the image resolution and depth.
|  For TIFF and BMP formats, you can define the plot quality by specifying Resolution and Image Depth. For JPEG and Encapsulated PostScript, you can define the quality by specifying Resolution. |
6. Specify the output options:
◦ To File—Save the plot to a file in the selected format. Specify the file name and location.
◦ To Printer—Send the plot to the printer. Enter the print command to use. You can specify whether you want to delete the temporary plot file (tmplot.plt) by selecting one of these options:
▪ Never—Do not delete the plot file.
▪ Immediately—Delete the plot file after the plot has been sent to the printer.
▪ Dialog—Display a dialog box, allowing you to delete the plot file.
7. Specify the plot format options:
◦ Select the orientation of the plot: Landscape or Portrait.
◦ Scale up or scale down the plot image by specifying the zoom factor.
◦ Offset the location of the graph on the paper by specifying the x-axis and y-axis offset values.
8. Specify the number of copies.
9. To preview the plot, click Preview.
10. To finish, click OK.