Karo Graph

Export and Print Help

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Documents can be exported or printed by pressing the Export and Print button in the tools palette.

Here, you can choose between four file formats or print directly.

  • TXT: Creates an ASCII-Art representation of the document. Useful for documenting code.
  • EPS: Encapsulated Postscript. Useful for scientific publications or reports.
  • SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics. Useful for diagrams on websites.
  • PDF: Portable Document Format. Useful for integration into existing PDF documents.
  • Print: Will eventually open the print panel.

Border and Grid

Select the checkboxes to draw a thin border around the content or draw the grid as defined in the document.

When the symmetric checkbox is selected, the padding around the content will be chosen such that the grid looks symmetric at the edges.

Margin

Denotes the distance from the content to the document bounds. One unit denotes one grid square.

The margin can be set with the slider. Alternatively, you can also enter an arbitrary number in the text field.

Padding

These options only have an effect, if the border or the grid checkbox are selected.

Padding adds additional horizontal (x) and vertical (y) space to the content. The border and grid enlarge accordingly. One unit denotes one grid square.

Both paddings can be set with the slider. Alternatively, you can also enter an arbitrary number in the text fields.

Font

If the document contains text, it will be exportet in one of 5 different monospace fonts. Choose the font using the popup list.

RGB / CMYK

Defines whether the colors shall be exported or printed with RGB values or with CMYK values.

RGB values are better for documents which shall be displayed on screen. CMYK values are better when printing on a printer. If you are unsure what to use, use RGB.

For more information about the color values, see Colors.

Compressing Height, Comments

These options are only available when exporting to TXT.

When compression is checked, Karo Graph tries to compress contents in height such that the line height becomes 1. This compression is dependent on the grid aspect ratio of the document: Portrait isometric documents are compressed by the factor of 3, square documents are compressed by the factor of 2 and landscape isometric documents are compressed by a factor of 1 (hence not being compressed at all). For more informations about the different aspect ratios, see Canvas.

When comments are checked, programming comment characters are automatically added to the content. You can choose the type of the comments with the popup menu.

//  +-------------------+ 
//  |     O       O     | 
//  |         |         | 
//  |    x    |    x    | 
//  |     xx  |  xx     | 
//  |       xxxxx       | 
//  +-------------------+

Page Fitting

These options are only available when printing.

  • When Fit on one page is selected, the whole content including the grid will be printed on one single page.
  • When Print on multiple pages is selected, the document will be printed on separate pages according to the Canvas settings.