IBM Lotus Symphony


Setting print options in Presentations

You can specify print options for a presentation to select the contents and page setup to be printed. On Windows systems, you can also resize the page to fit the print paper.

  1. Click File > Print, and then click Options.
  2. Select options
    Slides
    Specifies whether the pages are to be printed
    Notes
    Specifies whether to include notes when printing
    Outline
    Specifies whether to print an outline
    Handouts
    Specifies whether to print handouts. You can select the number of handout pages to print on each page. On Windows systems, select "Same as custom" if you want to use the setting in your handout view
    Default (on Macintosh, Color)
    Specifies that you want to print in the original colors of the presentation
    Gray scale
    Specifies that you want to print colors as gray scaled
    Black & white
    Specifies that you want to print the presentation in black and white
    The following options in step 2 are not available on Macintosh systems:
    Slide name
    Specifies whether to print the slide name of a presentation
    Date
    Specifies whether to print the current date
    Time
    Specifies whether to print the current time
    Hidden slides
    Specifies whether to print the pages that are currently hidden from the presentation
    100%
    Specifies that you do not want to further scale pages when printing
    Fit to page
    Specifies whether to scale down objects that are beyond the margins of the current slide so that they fit on the slide
    Tile slides
    Specifies that pages are to be printed in tile format. Select a slide format that is larger than the paper format
    Brochure
    Select the Brochure option to print the document in brochure format. You can also decide if you want to print the front, the back, or both sides of the brochure, and whether to print on one side of the paper or on both sides. To print on one side, select both Front and Back, and print. To print on both sides, first select only Front and start printing. Then put the paper into the printer with the other side up, select only Back and print again. Fold the pages in the center, put them together, and the brochure is ready.
  3. Print your presentation
    Default printer settings
    To set the default printing options, choose File > Preferences > Symphony > Print.
    Setting printer options for the current presentation
    Choose File > Print > Options, and then your print options. On Macintosh systems, all available options are already displayed in the Print window. In both cases, these settings override the default printer options in File > Preferences > Symphony > Print for the current print job only.
    Printing a range of slides
    Choose View > Slide Sorter View. Hold down Shift, and click the range of pages that you want to print. Choose File > Print and under Print Range click Pages (On Macintosh, under Pages click From...to. Ensure that the numbers of the selected pages are displayed and then click OK (on Macintosh, click Print.

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