Printing
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Introduction
Bibledit can print things like a list of references along with the text, or the project.
Printing is done this way. Bibledit generates a .pdf file, and then opens this file in a pdf viewer. From there it can be printed.
Font
The font to be used can be set under the View menu in the editor.
XEP cannot handle all fonts. At present it handles True Type fonts (that end with a .ttf extension), and Adobe Type 1 fonts (ending with a .pfa or .pfb extension) and that have an accompanying metrics file that ends with a .afm extension.
If the font you need is not available on your operating system, you may want to check out http://scripts.sil.org/ for additional fonts or search http://www.google.com for "Free Unicode fonts".
If XEP does not render a certain character, it means the font you have chosen does not contain a glyph for this particular character. Try another font, or try using all fonts.
Using all fonts
There is an option in the menu, Preferences, Printing, to use all fonts.
This means that Bibledit will not use only one font for printing, but other fonts as well.
Selecting fonts goes a bit different.
- Choose the font you wish to print in, and drag it to the very top of the list of fonts.
- Reorder the remaining fonts, dragging the more important font higher than the less important.
- There is a line in the fonts list which reads ˅˅˅ Disabled Fonts Below ˅˅˅. Drag any font you don't wish to use below this line.
If the text you wish to print has many different characters, it may be that there is not one single font that contains glyphs for them all. While XEP formats the text, it looks through all the fonts you have specified, starting at the top, to find the glyph to print. This character will be printed in the first font that contains that glyphs.
It will be clear that because of this the printing will take much longer.
If XEP does not render a certain character, that means that there is no font installed on your system that is supported by XEP and contains this character, or there is a font but it is disabled. This can be the case even though the character displays properly in the editor with that font. This is because when a character is not found in a font, Bibledit searches through the other fonts until the character has been found, and the other fonts may include fonts that are not supported by XEP.
Problematic fonts
Some operating systems install fonts that are not Unicode compliant, or that have license restrictions, or that have other problems. If Bibledit gives a message during printing that there was a problem, you can have a look in the System log if the problem was caused by some offending fonts. These fonts should be disabled in the font selection dialog for printing. Fonts can be disabled by dragging them below the ˅˅˅ Disabled Fonts Below ˅˅˅ line.
Formatter
Bibledit needs an xslfo formatter to lay the text out on the page. It uses XEP.
Location of .pdf files
The .pdf file for printing a project is usually found in /tmp/bibledit/project/document.pdf, and the one for printing references in /tmp/bibledit/references/document.pdf.