Printing Hints

Printing to PDF documents

Printing to a .pdf document is inconvenient because the Adobe PDF Writer insisted on creating a separate disk file for each page plotted, and combining the files is tedious. 

When NUTS sends a plot to a printer, each is created as a separate "document" to allow independent printing of each plot.   New commands have been created to allow multiple plots to be spooled to a .pdf document together.  

startdoc

This (non-2-letter) command tells NUTS to plot but without closing the "document".  Successive plots can be spooled, but are not sent to the printer until a "" command is given.

enddoc

This command closes the plot "document" and causes all queued plots to be sent to the printer.  When printing to a .pdf file, the resulting .pdf document includes all pages plotted since the startdoc command was executed.

 

Last updated: 4/20/05