MetaEdit+ allows printing of system designs through the Graph | Print... command in the Diagram Editor, Matrix Editor, and Table Editor, and File | Print... in the Generator Output tool.

When you print you are first asked for the printer. If you are printing from one of the editors you are then asked for the scale of the printout or how many pages you want to print over (see Figure 5–1). By default, printing is of the whole used area of the graph, scaled to fit on a single page.

You can choose to print at a different scale or over a certain number of pages in two different ways. Changing the print settings with the Scale field or Default button will make the printout have exactly that scale, and the printout will automatically take more pages if necessary but does not try to fill the whole of every page.

Changing the settings with the sliders of Pages wide / tall fields will make the printout fill the whole of every page in one dimension. The resulting scale factor is shown in the Scale field. Note that the number of pages you specify may not all be used, since the printout is always scaled uniformly in the x and y directions.

You may also print only the visible area of the editor window by clicking this option in the Print Settings dialog. If you apply this option, please scale and zoom the editor window as desired before printing.

When you press OK in the print scale dialog the output is sent to the printer.