Printing Help Topics

Sometimes it is useful to have a printed version of a help topic -- or even a whole help volume -- for a particular application. The HP Help System lets you print help topics to LaserJet Series II or Series III printers. (The default is Series III.)

When you print a topic, it is formatted just as it is on the display. Color graphics are automatically dithered to black and white.

To print help topics

Choose Print from the File menu to display the Print dialog.
Select the topics you want to print:
- Print All -- to print all topics.
- Print Current Topic -- to print only the current topic (the default).
- Print Current and Down -- to print the current topic and its subtopics.
Choose OK.

In quick help dialogs, the Print button immediately prints the current topic, without displaying the Print dialog.

By default, printed output from HP Help is directed to your default printer. You can specify another printer by setting the printer.name resource. If you are not printing to a LaserJet Series III (or later) printer, you must also set the printer.name.model resource.

To choose a printer for yourself

Copy the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Helpprint file into your home directory and make it writable.
Edit your /HomeDirectory/Helpprint file, setting the name and model resources for the printer you want to use:
*printer.name: name *printer.name.model: model
Where name is the device name of the printer and model is either LJII or LJIII. (The default model is LJIII.)

Your system administrator may have already edited the Helpprint file to configure the correct models for the printers on your system. If so, you specify just the printer.name to select a printer.

Examples. Suppose you have a LaserJet II printer named hp-laser. To direct all printed help topics to that printer, enter these resources into your Helpprint file:

   *printer.name:             hp-laser

   *printer.hp-laser.model:   LJII

Or, suppose you want to direct all printed help topics to a LaserJet III printer named lj3d. Since the default model is LJIII, you need to specify only this single resource:

   *printer.name:        lj3d

If you want to print help two-sided (duplex), include this resource, too:

   *lpCommand:  lp -oraw -od

The -od option requests duplex printing if your printer supports it.

To choose a printer for all users

Login as superuser.
Edit the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Helpprint file, adding the necessary model resource for each printer as follows:
*printer.name.model: model
Where name is the device name of the printer and model is either LJII or LJIII. The default model is LJIII.
To specify the default printer, use the printer name resource:
*printer.name: name
Where name is the device name of the printer you are configuring.




	NOTE: For non-default languages, be sure to edit the `Helpprint` file in the correct `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/language/` subdirectory.

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