Printing

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 menu View / Printer font. To use a font, put a tick in the "Use" column.

The size of the fonts can be set too.

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 the internet 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 use more than one font at once.

Using several fonts

To use several fonts, tick all the fonts you wish to use.

This means that Bibledit will not use only one font for printing, but other fonts as well.

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.

You can reorder the fonts in the list. Drag the most important font to the top, and the less important ones under it.

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.

Line height

In the dialog where the font can be selected, there is also a setting for the line height, in percentages. Normally it is on 100%. Setting it to e.g. 200% gives the line a double height. This would for example allow for text and notes to be written between the lines on worksheets.

Formatter

Bibledit needs an xslfo formatter to lay the text out on the page. It uses XEP.

Bible notes

These are footnotes, endnotes, and crossreferences.

Location of .pdf files

The .pdf file for printing a project is usually found in the temporal directory/project/document.pdf, and the one for printing references in the temporal directory/references/document.pdf.

Columns

Normally text is laid out in two columns. The stylesheet editor allows the "span columns" property to be set. This means that a certain piece of content spans the two columns. Biblical content honours this setting, but content from the Front Matter and the Back Matter is laid out in one column.

New pages

Normally Bibledit prints all the books one after the other, without starting them on a new page. This behaviour is implemented so that normally not too much paper is used. Bibledit can be set to print each new book on a new page, or, going one step further, to have each book start on an odd page. Settings for this are in the stylesheet, under the \id marker.

See Questions.