Print Preview
The "Print Preview" window shows the score as it will be printed. This allows you to visually proof the printout of your tablature without having to actually print it out first.
If, instead of simply clicking, you keep the mouse button held down and move the cursor a rectangular "ghost" block appears. The coordinates and size (in pixels) of the block are displayed on the right-hand side of the menu bar. This allows the easy creation of a detailed screen dump of a specific portion of the tablature in a convenient size.
[Print] takes you directly to the printout process and prints everything displayed in the preview.
[Print setup...] opens a "tabbed" dialog containing relevant portions of the Options dialog so that you can adjust the settings. Any changes you make here can be viewed directly (without closing the dialog) by clicking on [Apply]. The "Preview" button of the Options dialog is then replaced by two << and >> buttons which allow you to browse the print preview without quitting the dialog.
[<<] and [>>] allow you to navigate, page by page, through a multiple page preview. You can also change pages by using the [Page Up/Down] or [Home/End] keys.
The "Zoom" box allows you to select a zoom factor so that you can view a close-up of the details.
| • | Clicking on the icon at the right-hand end of the box opens a list of pre-defined zoom factors. |
| • | Clicking in the box, itself, highlights the existing figure in the box and allows you to enter a zoom factor of your own from the keyboard. |
| • | Once in "Zoom" mode, you can navigate within the page using the scroll bars. As long as you're in this mode, you can cycle through the pre-defined zoom factors using [ ] and [ ]. You can also use the mouse wheel while holding down the [Ctrl] key. |
You can specify the area to zoom in on by clicking directly on it in the preview screen. Clicking directly on the preview screen also toggles between the last two zoom factors selected.
The "Export" button opens a sub-menu allowing you to save an image of the printer output in several formats :
| - | Copy to Clipboard as Bitmap. This command places a bitmap (pixel) image of an entire page or a selected portion of a page in the Windows clipboard. This image can then be pasted, edited and converted in any graphics program. The scale of the bitmap image corresponds exactly to that used by the TablEdit "Zoom" function. A scale of at least 100% must be selected in order to produce a legible result. The "Copy to Clipboard as Monochrome Bitmap" option allows you to export the image at a very high resolution without saturating your computer memory. |
| - | Copy to Clipboard as Metafile. This command places a copy of the printed page in the Windows clipboard as a vector graphics metafile. The image can then be pasted into and edited by any graphics program that accepts vector graphics. One of the major advantages of this graphical format is that you can alter the scale of the image without any loss of quality. It should be noted that the demo version of TablEdit will not export the second measure of each line of tab. |
| - | A further series of options allows you to save the image of the current page to your hard drive in a variety of graphical image formats (wmf, bmp, gif, jpg, tiff, png). The last two digits of the file name correspond to the page number of the tablature. The file is by default saved to the same directory as the original .tef file. However, by first selecting "Graphic Export Setup" you can change both the destination and name of the file as well as the size of the exported image (this is handy for creating thumbnails). |
[ |--| ] allows you to show/hide the dotted lines representing the margins and limits of the header and footer.
[Close] closes the preview window and returns you directly to the tablature.