App/UI/Printing

This bug was fixed as of v2.6.5. This page is provided for historical reasons.

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XOWA currently does not support printing by default. This limitation is due to an underlying bug in the SWT HTML browser: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=376358

Printing after saving to a file

The simplest way to print a document is to do the following:

• Right-click anywhere in the HTML box
• Choose File -> Save As
• Save the file
• Open the file in Mozilla Firefox
• Choose File -> Print

Printing directly from XOWA

If you want to print directly from XOWA, you will need to do extra configuration.

• Find your prefs.js file

On Linux, the folder would be /home/your_user_name/.mozilla/eclipse

On Windows XP, the folder would be C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\eclipse

On Windows 7, the folder would be C:\Users\your_user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\eclipse

• Open the file with a text-editor (Notepad++ on Windows)
• Add the following to the bottom of the file: user_pref("print.show_print_progress", false);
• Restart XOWA
• Go to Options/Menus
• Add the following line: add_btn_default('xowa.file.print');
• Click Save in the upper left-hand corner
• Right-click and choose Print