7.6  Printing

Printing is available in various locations within Catalyzer Main menu. You can use File>Print... to print the entire catalog, or the context-sensitive menus (right-click) in the record tree panel and the form list panel to print subtrees (Print). The context sensitive menu in the search panel can be used to print search results.

On selection of print from any of these locations, the Print Options dialog is displayed. This shows the target printer, and data selection options. To change the target printer, or to modify page setup options, click Setup.

The data selection options available depend on the type of data selected for printing. When printing records, the following options are displayed:

• Print current selection or Print entire catalog.
• Include classes - if selected, the class definitions of records in the print output are also printed.
• If Print current selection is chosen, the following options are available to filter the record selection.
• Include subrecords - prints all subrecords of the selected records (but not records referenced by the selected records. This is recursive, printing the root record of a catalog and selecting include subrecords will print the entire catalog.
• Include linked records - will print all records referenced by the selected records.

If Print entire catalog is selected, the above options are irrelevant and not displayed.

When printing classes, the following options are displayed:

• Print current selection or Print entire catalog.
• The remaining options above are not relevant for class printing.
• When ready to print, click Print.

The output will consist of a summary of printed records and classes, followed by the records and classes selected for printing.

Printing requires that you have at least one printer defined with the operating system. If not then an error message will appear if you try to print.