Writer Guide

2) Click Properties to open the properties dialog box for the printer.
The available choices vary from one printer to another, but you
should find an option for Color. See your printer’s help or user
manual for more information.
3) The choices for color may include black and white or grayscale .
Choose one of these. Grayscale is best if you have any graphics in
the document. Click OK to confirm your choice and return to the
Print dialog box, then click OK again to print the document.
To set up OOo to print all color text and graphics as grayscale:
1) Click Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Print to display the
dialog box shown in Figure 146.
2) Select the Convert colors to grayscale checkbox. Click OK to
save the change.
To set up Writer to print all color text as black, and all graphics as
grayscale:
1) Click Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org Writer > Print.
2) Under Contents , select the Print black checkbox. Click OK to
save the change.
Previewing pages before printing
The normal page view in Writer shows you what each page will look
like when printed, but it shows only one page at a time. If you are
designing a document to be printed double-sided, you may want to see
what facing pages look like. Writer provides two ways to do this:
• View Layout (editable view) —see Chapter 1 (Introducing Writer).
• Page Preview (read-only view) —from which you can also print
multiple pages onto one sheet of paper.
To use Page Preview:
1) Click File > Page Preview, or click the Page Preview button .
The Writer window changes to display the current page and the
following page, and shows the Page Preview toolbar (Figure 147)
in place of the Formatting toolbar.
Figure 147. Page Preview toolbar
2) Click the Book Preview icon to display left and right pages in
their correct orientation.
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