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      type="guide" style="task"
      id="gedit-printing">

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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#gedit-printing-guide"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.3" date="2011-03-25" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
  </info>

  <title>Printing with gedit</title>

    <note style="important">
      <p>Printing with <app>gedit</app> requires that you have connected and configured your printer. If you have not done this, please consult the <link href="ghelp:gnome-help?printing">printing help for GNOME</link>.</p>
    </note>
  
  <p><app>gedit</app> allows you to both print output to a file, as well as printing output to paper.  Prior to printing your document, you can also preview how the printed document will look by using the <app>Print Preview</app> feature.</p>
    
  <section id="printing-to-paper" style="2column">
    <title>Printing to paper</title>
  </section>

  <section id="printing-to-file" style="2column">
    <title>Printing output to a file</title>

 <p>You can also use <app>gedit</app> to print to a file. To do so, select <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui><gui>Print to File</gui></guiseq>.</p>
    <p>Printing is enabled for the following file formats:</p>
   <list>
    <item><p>Portable Document Format (.pdf)</p></item>
    <item><p>PostScript (.ps)</p></item>
    <item><p>Scalable Vector Graphic (.svg)</p></item>
   </list>

  </section>

</page>
