Printing

Z-Write has a powerful Print Preview feature. This allows you to see your document on screen exactly as it will be printed without wasting paper. You can print a single Section or a group of Sections. When you choose the "Print Sections..." command from the file menu, you are presented with the "Select Sections" dialog. Click on the Sections you wish to print (Section names with a round bullet next to them will print). Sections always print in the same order as they appear in the document.

Print Preview Within the Print Preview window, you can move between pages with the buttons on the screen, or use the left and right arrow keys. Holding down the Option key while clicking the Next or Previous page buttons or using an arrow key jumps you ten pages forward or backward. There are also buttons that take you to the first or last page of the document.

You have the option of turning the print header or footer on or off. When you are ready to print, press the Print button.

Warning: Print Preview uses a considerable amount of memory. (There's no way around this; Z-Write essentially must draw the entire document in memory in order to show it to you.) You may need to allocate more RAM to Z-Write if you are printing long documents or many Sections. For instance, one of my novels is a 315K Z-Write document. I had to increase Z-Write's memory to nearly 20MB before I could preview the entire thing at once! (Another solution is to preview fewer Sections at once.)