Printing and export

Printing

What prints is the document as it is on screen, with every change you’ve made, whether or not you’ve saved.

1. On the Home tab, click Print… (or choose More › Print…, or press ⌘P — Ctrl+P on Windows and Linux).
2. In the Print dialog, set Pages and Copies.
3. Check the line under them. It says what will print — 12 pages, or 3 pages × 2 = 6 sheets — or, in red, why nothing can.
4. Under On the paper, choose how pages fit the paper.
5. Set the two switches.
6. Click Print. It reads Printing… while it works.
7. In your system’s print panel, choose the printer, the paper size and anything else the printer offers, and print.

When the job goes to the printer, the message says Sent 12 pages to the printer. Closing the system panel without printing isn’t an error, and nothing is shown.

Print settings

Which pages

The Pages box in the Print and Save the pages as pictures dialogs understands:

The line under the box says, in red, when the range can’t be used:

Saving a copy as a PDF

Home › Save a copy… saves the whole document, with your changes, where you choose. See Saving your work.

To save only some pages, use Pages › Save pages as a PDF…; see Organising pages.

Saving the text

View › Text… saves the words of the whole document as a plain text file. See Searching and selecting text.

Saving as a web page

A web page reflows to fit a phone, can be read heading by heading with a screen reader, and keeps its links.

1. On the View tab, click Web page… (or choose More › Save as a web page…). It’s dimmed on a document with no text.
2. In the Save as a web page dialog, choose where to save. The name starts as the document’s name with .html.

The message says where it was saved, and that the layout is Nixt PDF’s reading of the pages, not the document’s own.

What the web page contains:

• Headings, paragraphs and lists, worked out from the layout: a line in larger type than usual becomes a heading, lines close together become a paragraph, and a line starting with a bullet becomes a list item.
• The contents list, when the document has bookmarks.
• Links that go to web and email addresses. Links Nixt PDF wouldn’t follow aren’t included as links.
• A note at the top saying the structure was worked out from the layout.

Saving the pages as pictures

Save each page as a picture file — for a slide, a web page, or anywhere that won’t take a PDF.

1. On the View tab, click Pictures… (or choose More › Save the pages as pictures…).
2. In Pages, type the pages to save. It starts as all; see Which pages. The line under it says what will be saved, such as 12 pages as PNG, at 144 dpi.
3. Under Format, choose:

4. Drag Resolution to set how detailed the pictures are, from 72 to 400 dpi. It starts at 144 dpi. The line under it says what suits:
   • below 120 dpi: Small files, and text will look soft.
   • 120 to 240 dpi: Right for a screen, a slide or a web page.
   • above 240 dpi: Large files. Worth it only if the pictures will be printed or zoomed into.
5. Click Choose a folder…. It reads Writing… while it works.
6. In the Where should the pictures go? dialog, choose a folder.

Each page is saved as its own file, named after the document and the page — for example Report-page-07.png in a document of 40 pages. Page numbers are padded with zeros so the files sort in order.

• Each picture shows the page as readers show it: cropped pages are saved cropped.
• Unsaved changes are included.
• A page that can’t be drawn doesn’t stop the others. The message says Wrote 11 pictures. Some pages could not be drawn: and why.
• Up to 500 pages can be saved at once; more is refused with That is more pages than Nixt PDF will write in one go.

Everything Nixt PDF can save