X-Fonter 14.0

Print Preview

The Print Preview window lets you inspect exactly how your font printout will look on paper before sending it to the printer. You can browse every page, zoom in to check fine detail, and print individual pages directly from the preview without returning to the print dialog.

To open Print Preview, click the Print Preview button in the print dialog rather than the Print button. You can also access it directly from the File menu.

The Print Preview window showing the page thumbnail strip on the left, the main page view on the right, and the toolbar along the top with print, navigation and zoom controls — The Print Preview window. Thumbnail strip on the left, main page view on the right, toolbar along the top.

The Preview Layout

The window is divided into two panels:

Thumbnail strip (left) — shows a small thumbnail of every page in the report. Click any thumbnail to jump straight to that page in the main view. You can drag the divider between the panels to make the thumbnail strip wider, which lets you see more thumbnails simultaneously and is useful for longer reports with many pages. Scroll the strip up and down to reach pages not currently visible.
Main page view (right) — displays the currently selected page at the zoom level set in the toolbar. This is where you check that sample text is rendering correctly, that spacing looks right, and that nothing is being cut off at the page margins.

Tip: Use the Page Width zoom mode to make the page fill the full width of the main view — this is usually the most comfortable mode for reading through a Font Listing report. Switch to Whole Page to see the complete page layout at a glance, then zoom in to check specific areas more closely.

Toolbar Controls

Control	What it does
Print All	Sends the entire report to the printer — all pages, using the printer and settings chosen in the print dialog. Use this once you are satisfied with the preview.
Print Page	Prints only the page currently displayed in the main view. Useful when you only need one specific page from a longer report — for example, the page that contains a particular font you want to show a client.
First / Previous / Next / Last	Navigate through the pages of the report. The current page number and total page count are displayed between the Previous and Next buttons.
Zoom level	Controls how large the page is displayed in the main view. The available levels are 25%, 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, Page Width, Page Height, and Whole Page. Page Width and Page Height scale the view to fit the main panel horizontally or vertically respectively; Whole Page shows the complete page scaled to fit both dimensions at once.

Tip: Zoom to 100% or higher to verify that small font sizes are rendering legibly before printing a large batch. Character map printouts in particular can become hard to read at small cell sizes — it is worth checking one page at full zoom before committing the whole job to print.

Going Back to Adjust Settings

If the preview reveals a problem — too many fonts per page, sample text that is cut off, or a character map range that is not what you intended — close the Print Preview window and return to the print dialog to adjust your settings. The dialog retains all your previous settings so you only need to change what requires fixing.

Print Preview

The Preview Layout

Toolbar Controls

Going Back to Adjust Settings

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