### Issue

There is no way to directly print from Viewer or Moscow to the printer (its actually very difficult to print 3D images with hidden surface removal to a printer).

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### Solution

The recommended solution to this problem is to capture an image of the screen and use a graphics utility to print the image of the screen. The image that will be printed to the printer will be at the resolution of the screen.

#### Windows 95,98,NT

To capture an image of the screen press the ALT key (bottom left of keyboard) and the PRINT SCREEN key (top right of the keyboard) at the same time and this copies an image of the screen into the clipboard. Start up the application PAINT (a standard part of the Windows operating system but you can use any other painting or photo editing package as well) and paste the image into a new document. Print the document as you would normally do for any other document

NOTE: You may find that this process takes along time to print particularly if your network is busy and you are printing to an inkjet printer or a Postscript Level 1 compliant printer. If this is a problem then your main alternative is to to upgrade to Postscript Level 2 compliant printer and Level 2 compliant printer drivers. Postscript level 2 allows the downloading of compressed direct to the printer rather than the original uncompressed image.

#### Macintosh

To capture a copy of a portion of the screen to a file press APPLE-SHIFT-4. After pressing and releasing this combination drag across that portion of the screen you want to take a picture of. A file called 'picture #' where # is a unique number will be created on the top level of the startup disk. This file can then be opened in the application SimpleText by double clicking on the file and printed from there. Alternatively this file can be opened in any drawing or photo editing package. The image then be printed as for any normal application.

If you wish to copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard press APPLE-SHIFT-4 and while dragging hold down the CONTROL key.

NOTE: You may find that this process takes along time to print particularly if your network is busy and you are printing to an inkjet printer or a Postscript Level 1 compliant printer. If this is a problem then your main alternative is to to upgrade to Postscript Level 2 compliant printer and Level 2 compliant printer drivers. Postscript level 2 allows the downloading of compressed direct to the printer rather than the original uncompressed image.

#### Silicon Graphics IRIX

To capture a portion of the screen start the application SNAPSHOT (either from a UNIX window or from an icon of the desktop). A button called SNAPSHOT will appear on the desktop. With the right mouse button a popup menu can be triggered on that button to change the file name to which the snapshot will be written and also to trigger the snapshot. To select the position of the screen to be captured drag the box (it will appear automatically once you press the left mouse button) with the left mouse button from the SNAPSHOT button across the screen. Once the rectangle is correctly positioned trigger a snapshot. This will be saved in your upper level directory in a file called 'snap.rgb' if you didn't change the filename (it will overwrite any existing file). This file can then be opened in SHOWCASE or IMGVIEW or any other drawing or photo editing package. The image can then be printed as for any other normal application.