The best results will be obtained on PostScript printers, since these have built-in facilities for images (e.g. spectrograms) and rotated text. However, the printed page will look reasonable on colour inkjet printers as well.

1. Printing on Macintosh

If you are on a Mac and a PostScript printer is available, Praat will usually write direct PostScript commands to that printer (see PostScript settings... if you want to switch this off). Praat also supports non-PostScript printers, such as most colour inkjet printers.

2. Indirect printing with PDF

If you don't have a PostScript printer, and you still want PostScript quality, you can save the picture to a PDF file (Save as PDF file...). You can then view this file with the freely available Acrobat^® Reader^™ program, and print from there.

3. Indirect printing with your word processor

If you save your picture to a PDF file, you will be able to include it as a picture in your favourite word processor (Microsoft^® Word^™ 2008, LaTeX...). This works on the Mac only. See Save as PDF file....

Indirect printing without PDF

Pictures included in your word processor (post-2006 versions) via Copy to clipboard will print just as nicely as PDF files.

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