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Printing and PDF

Twain prints the rendered document, and can save it as a PDF, using the standard macOS print and save panels.

A Pro feature

Printing and PDF export are part of Twain Pro.

Printing​

With a document open in a rendered view, choose File ▸ Print… (⌘P). The rendered document is sent to the standard macOS print dialog, from where you can also use Save as PDF.

Exporting a PDF directly​

Choose File ▸ Export ▸ As PDF… and pick where to save. This produces a PDF of the rendered document without going through the print dialog.

How printed pages look​

Twain uses print-specific styling so the output reads well on paper:

  • A clean light page, regardless of the theme you read in.
  • The full page width is used.
  • Page breaks avoid splitting code blocks, tables, figures, callouts, and diagrams awkwardly.
  • Long lines of code are wrapped so nothing is cut off at the page edge.
  • For links to external pages, the URL is shown after the link text so it is not lost in print.
  • Change bars from Show Changes are hidden.

Both printing and PDF export work from a rendered view; they are disabled in the raw source view.