Printable View
I can't seem to find a print preview option with this newest version of Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7. Have I missed it or is there another option to view the fit and position before sending it to my HP Deskjet F4400 series printer. My OS is Windows 8 home....
I did a search with no joy.
Thanks for any advice...
Bob C.
You can set the print layout in File>>Print Options, but there's never been an actual built-in 'Print Preview' option, but you could export to PDF and preview in your PDF reader first?
Bob, I don't know if it helps, but what I've been doing is exporting the image as a JPG and using the browser preview option from there to see what the final thing will look like before printing.
It doesn't work properly with PNG, as the off-page objects still show (it defaults to using Chrome, and Chrome has a problem with PNGs - I'm sure you must be able to choose the default browser somewhere, but I've not found it yet), but it works fine with JPGs.
Not ideal, but a bit of a workaround.
@DOAADI: What defaults to chrome?
I'm sure it's just the way my system is/was set up.
When I installed Xara I had Chrome set as my default browser, so it must have picked it up from there. But Chrome has been driving me nuts by eating up my free RAM and not displaying some images properly so I switched back to Explorer.
What I'm referring to is when I go through Export as JPG, and then Settings, under the Browser Preview tab and when I click "Preview", my image opens in Chrome - not IE. For that reason, I have to preview as JPG and not PNG, because Chrome displays all the off-page stuff if you do.
It's no biggie, and I'm not going to worry about it unless there's an obvious setting I can change.
Oh, I just noticed an easier way where I can choose the browser, but it doesn't give a proper preview..
Just choose Preview Website and you can preview it that way, with the option of choosing the approparite browser. But it crops the image because it isn't a print preview, so not ideal.
Nope, should not do that. Doesn't here (my system browser is set to Chrome Version 23.0.1271.97 m)Quote:
Originally Posted by DOAADI
The (export) Browser Preview will show all page and pasteboard objects if you don't have any object selected for export whether it's JPG or PNG, matters not.
However, selecting the object for export will force xara to export just that object.
If your copy of Xara is not doing that, then you may need to contact support.xara.com as this is not correct or expected behaviour.
Well, mine does it exactly like I said.
If you choose to export the page, and select the area to save as "page" it definitely doesn't show the off-page objects, so it functions as a print preview in that respect.
The only issue I have, as I say, is that it does it in Chrome and not IE. I would imagine that someone who doesn't have Chrome installed would get the IE preview - or they may be happy with Chrome on the understanding that you DO get the off-page objects if you export as PNG.
Here's the files - the Xara edit window and the preview window:
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Incidentally, if you export it as a PDF you get the same "print preview" without the off-page gubbins, but you get the file as well. With the JPG option you can cancel without creating an output file.
(With thanks to someone who posted some Christmas clipart the other day - I used the holly leaves here.)
Well you can have FireFox, Opera or Safari as your default browser, doesn't have to be IE of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by DOAADI
Choosing the area to save as 'Page', objects should be clipped at the page edges and so not show any pasteboard contents when PNG type is chosen.
Personally I have never come across any inherent problem with the display of PNGs in google chrome.
If it does for you, then something isn't working correctly with your installation because this is something done by Xara and sent to the browser
Sledger, as I said, mine defaults to Chrome even though I have IE as the default browser. I cannot see any way of changing that. I suspect it has something to do with installing Xara while Chrome was my default - a minor bug if you like. I'm not worried about it.
One thing I appear to have been incorrect about is Chrome having trouble with PNG. The trick is to click the Preview button before Browser Preview - then the PNG renders properly. Like this:
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It's not perfect, I know, but in answer the the OP it could serve as a "print preview" to save on paper and ink.
Don't quite follow you, but that preview is used for animation, don't think Chrome comes into it
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This is getting a little confusing right now. I don't think Export as JPG, and subsequent Browser Preview, is for animation.
As the images I have uploaded clearly demonstrate, this works as a "print preview" for me. Therefore, it might help the OP in the absence of a true Print Preview function within Xara.
Don't kow how to get to that preview :o Bear with me, you're not clicking on this are you?
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File >> Export JPEG... >> provide a filename >> Settings.
Under Bitmap Size tab, select Page (that eliminates the off-page objects).
Under Browser Preview tab, first click the Preview button at the bottom of the dialog(ue) box, then click the Browser Preview button within the tab.
.... misread post :o
Ah ... right ... ok
Thanks very much for the replies. I tried all the preview suggestions and made my image a little bigger as a test then checked the setting under File/Print options/Print layout then selected the "Automatic fit" button and that works well enough, thanks again!
Seems to me that the easiest thing to do at this point would be to uninstall Chrome, at least temporarily.Quote:
Originally Posted by DOAADI
-- Ben
It worries me so little that I'm not going to fiddle with my system and risk it not working at all :-O
After all, if Xara already thinks Chrome is the default browser when it isn't, I wonder what it will think when it still thinks Chrome is the default but in fact isn't there at all?
On my List Of Things To Worry About, it doesn't even make the top 500 :)
Meanwhile members are endeavouring to assist you with you're problems and you happily dismiss their efforts. Well done!
Egg, I haven't got a problem! I don't give two hoots about my Xara installation thinking Chrome is the default browser and I never made more than a passing reference to someone perhaps knowing if there was a setting where I could change it.
It was ME trying to help OTHERS that was the reason I posted. Not ME asking for help (other than by passing reference). But I'm not part of the clique, so I guess that is something I should avoid, huh? :confused: