A print to a file and the print preview list their notes as saves and
exports do since #6920: what the job leaves out of the document or prints
differently first (art outside the imageable area, type in a fallback
font, transparency flattened for PostScript), then the notes on the
options (halftone screens and a fixed flatness that aren't written, copies
per sheet that don't fit, a printer profile left out, ink options that
name no ink). Each kind keeps the order it is given in.
The print layout, the PDF print and the PDF print plan return the notes
on the options in `setting_notes` beside `warnings`, as `ExportReport`
does. The status message after a print to a file names the first note,
so a fixed flatness no longer hides type printed in a fallback font.
Each writer marks its notes as a loss (something of the document that the
file leaves out or that reaches it changed) or as a note on the options
(an option it didn't apply or applied another way while the art reaches
the file as it looks, or something an option turns off). The PDF, SVG,
EPS, legacy .ai, DXF and HP-GL writers return their notes on the options
in a list of their own (`setting_notes`) beside `warnings`, and the
engine's `Encoded` does the same.
The replies of the save and export commands, and of
`clipboard.exportPdf` and `clipboard.exportPng`, list the losses first,
each kind in the order the writers gave them, across every file that
Export for Screens writes. The status bar names the first note, so an
export to lossy WebP of type in a font that isn't installed now names the
fallback-font note instead of the lossy WebP note. A print to a file
keeps the order its notes are given in.
File › Print printed each artboard on a sheet of its own. A 2 × 3.5 in
card on Letter printed once in the middle of the page, and Print had no
option to fill the sheet with copies.
The Print dialog's General section has Copies per Sheet (off by
default) and a Gutter. With it on, a sheet holds as many copies of the
artboard as fit the imageable area, each with its bleed and marks,
across then down, gutter pt apart. The card prints 4 × 3 on Letter,
and 3 × 3 with an 18 pt gutter. The copies are not turned, and the
placement places the whole grid as it places one copy. An artboard
that does not fit prints one copy per sheet with a warning, and more
than 1,000 copies on a sheet is an error. Tiling leaves the option
out. The PDF and PostScript writers draw the art and the marks once
per copy, the PDF TrimBox holds every copy, the preview draws each
copy, and print.preview lists them as `copies`. With the option off,
the layout lists no copies and the writers draw the page as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md (Print, Printing), docs/target-app-parity.md.
Each visible object with a URL (Attributes panel) is written as a Link
annotation with a URI action over its bounds on the page, trimmed to its
clipping groups. Hidden objects, non-printing layers and printed sheets get
none; PDF/X files leave them out with a warning. URIs are percent-encoded
to 7-bit ASCII.
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