print.ini
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print.ini
survex printer settings
Description
The print.ini file contains printer descriptions for
the Survex printer drivers.
File Format
The format of the print.ini file
is similar to the .ini files used on Microsoft Windows.
The file is divided into sections, each section corresponding to a separate
printer description. A section starts with a section name
in square brackets, e.g. aven's built-in printer support uses the
aven section:
[aven]
followed by some options of the form
<option>=<setting>, e.g.:
font_size_labels=6
In the supplied print.ini each option is preceded by
a comment (indicated by a semicolon ';') briefly explaining the option.
Customising Printer Settings
If you wish to change the size of the font used for labels or the colours
used you need to override some of the setting in print.ini.
You shouldn't modify the master print.ini (located in /usr/share/survex
on Unix, or in the same directory as the Survex program files on other
systems), or your changes will be overwritten by upgrades. Instead create:
/etc/survex/print.ini (Unix - system-wide settings)
~/.survex/print.ini (Unix - per user settings)
myprint.ini in the directory where Survex is installed (other platforms)
If one of these files contains a setting then aven will use it instead of the
setting in the master print.ini. Any settings not specified will still fall
back to the values in print.ini.