Printing

Geometer has two commands for printing: Print and Save EPS. The first prints to the printer; the second makes an Encapsulated PostScript file suitable for printing (and other things). The Print command relies on some information in your .geometerrc file. See Startup.html.

Geometer can only produce a PostScript file, so you will need some method to print that file. For example, if you have a PC, you can download GhostScript for free from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and use that as a printing engine.

Your system may have other methods to print PostScript files, and any of those should also work.

If you are having trouble printing, here are some details that may help you:

Although it only produces an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file, you have the most control using the Save EPS command. It produces a file that looks almost exactly like your current Geometer window with one screen pixel per printer's point. In other words, if you need a file that would exactly fill an 8.5x11 inch page, since there are 72 points per inch, you would want a Geometer window that is 612 = 8.5x72 pixels wide and 792 pixels high. This can be set in the Edit Preferences dialog available under the Edit pulldown menu.
Then if you know how to print EPS files, just print this one outside the Geometer program.

When you issue the Print command Geometer scales your page to 550 pixels wide by 730 high and produces an EPS file that centers this information in the center of an 8.5x11 inch page. It then calls the system, using the print command you specified in your preferences together with the name of the EPS file it just created.

Geometer scales the current window so that it is as large as possible and still fits on an 8.5x11 inch page.

The best way to get printing working is to have Geometer produce an EPS file that you can experiment with and then test possible printing commands in a command shell with that file. When you finally get exactly what you want, save it into your preferences file.
For example, on a Windows NT 4.0 system with GhostScript installed, one possible way to print the file called test.eps with an attached HP LaserJet printer from a command shell is:
gswin32 -sDEVICE=laserjet -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE test.eps
To make Geometer use this command to print, place this text in the Print cmd: input area in the Options dialog:
gswin32 -sDEVICE=laserjet -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE %s
The "%s" informs Geometer that the file name is to be inserted at this point in the command.
This is, of course, an extreme case. Your print command may be something as simple as:
print %s.