There are a number of ways to have your sequences printed. The simplest is to
let Sd do it directly, at the end of a session. Before Sd exits,
it offers to print the current file.
You can also give the explicit command print current file at any time.
However, we don't recommend doing this except at the very end of a session,
because Sd always prints the entire file. If you issue the print command
twice in one session, the second command will duplicate all the sequences printed
the first time.
You can also leave the sequences on a disk file and print the file later. Click
No when it offers to print the file. You can print it later with Sd.
Just start Sd and give the print any file command. This lets you
browse to the file that you want. (In fact, the print any file command can
print any file at all. This is sometimes useful. Do not use it to print documents
from word processors such as Word 97.)
When Sd prints a file, the default font is 14 point Courier Bold. You can
choose another font or type size by giving the choose font for printing
command. This only affects printing. It has no affect on the screen display.
Only Sd is capable of printing. Sdtty is not. Of course, Sd
can print files prepared by Sdtty.
You can also print sequence files by other means. You can simply copy the file to the printer, using the Windows Explorer. There are also a large number of software packages that are capable of printing files. We do not recommend Notepad or Wordpad for printing sequence files. These formatters do not recognize the page boundaries in imported files, so the "cards" will not be on separate pages. If you want to print files with a word processor, we recommend Word 97. It handles page boundaries correctly, though its line margins may cause unwanted line breaks.
To read a file into Word 97, select File and Open from the menu.
Set the "Files of Type" pulldown to "All Documents". Navigate to the desired folder
and select the desired file. If you want to print in a different font or type size,
first select Edit and Select All from the menu. (This will put the
entire file into reverse video.) Then select the desired font and/or type size from
the pulldown menus on the Format Bar. Then choose File and Print.
If you made any changes to the file while in Word 97 or another word processor,
including just changing the font for printing, the program may ask whether to save
the changes. It is dangerous to do so unless the file was written with an Sd
session file name of `*'. See the "sessions" document for details on file
management.
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