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Invoke the Print Document to ... dialog box (title will be completed with default printer set)
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start_page
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The start page in the range of pages to be printed, defaulting to the current page.
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end_page
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The end page in the range of pages to be printed, defaulting to the current page.
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page range
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The listing of pages and/or range of pages to print. The elements in the list are separated by commas or spaces. The syntax for the page numbers is as follows: "num" for a page number, "num..num" or "num-num" for a range of pages. Both types of page range indicator (.. and -) can be used in the same command. Printing a range or individual pages in a different order to the normal progress of printing is also possible.
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copies
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The number of copies of each page to print, by default 1. If it is more than 1 then each page will be printed the given number of times before the next page is processed.
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size_percent
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The percentage size at which to print.
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yx_ratio
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The scale of page height compared to page width. This compensates for plastic plate stretching when placed on a roller. The default value is 1.0, which does not make any adjustment.
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all_ l_r
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The orientation of pages to be printed.
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pctrl
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The name of the printer control stream to use, if any.
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print_file
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The name of a file or printer port (e.g. lpt1, com1) to which to print. You can also type the name of the port into the Print Destination edit field when using the Print document dialog box: this is useful if you want to try printing to a port with/without renaming it in your startdos.3ad file, as discussed under device.
On Windows systems, if the first character of print_file is a @ character it represents the name of a Windows printer. A list of printers (without the @) can be obtained using the tflist macro with mode 7.
When printing to a file using the dialog, PTC ALD prepends the "{@}" area name to the default filename that is to be printed. This area is initialized to the PTC ALD directory /3d . Each printer driver can print to its own area. For example, if you define an area name called "print_ps", the postscript driver will prepend all its default filenames with "{print_ps}", instead of "{@}".
To set areas for other printer drivers, define an area name corresponding to the driver's default extension, e.g. the TIFF driver which has the default extension .tif would need to have an area called "print_tif" defined. See also: ../3d/areas.3d).
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view_no
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The alternate view number you wish to print.
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file_freq
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The number of files you wish to print based on the number of pages or the ranges. Use the following parameters as required:
• ;0 –One file for all pages
• ;1 – New file for each page
• ;2 – New file for each range
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/padding
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The spacing you wish to apply to the pages that you print. For example, to print a new file for each page with a padding of 4, use the parameter ;1/4.
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