Print Preferences

Oxygen XML Editor lets you configure how files are printed out of the editor. Note that these setting cover how files are printed directly from Oxygen XML Editor itself, not how they are printed after the XML source has been transformed by a publishing stylesheet. To configure the Print options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Print.

This page allows you to customize the headers and footers added to a printed page when you print from the Text mode or Author mode editors. These settings do not apply to the Grid and schema Design modes.

You can specify what is printed on the Left, Middle, and Right of the header and footer using plain text of any of the following variables:

• ${currentFileURL} - Current file as URL, that is the absolute file path of the current edited document represented as URL.
• ${cfne} - Current file name with extension. The current file is the one currently opened and selected.
• ${cp} - Current page number. Used to display the current page number on each printed page in the Editor / Print Preferences page.
• ${tp} - Total number of pages in the document. Used to display the total number of pages on each printed page in the Editor / Print Preferences page.
• ${env(VAR_NAME)} - Value of the VAR_NAME environment variable. The environment variables are managed by the operating system. If you are looking for Java System Properties, use the ${system(var.name)} editor variable.
• ${system(var.name)} - Value of the var.name Java System Property. The Java system properties can be specified in the command line arguments of the Java runtime as -Dvar.name=var.value. If you are looking for operating system environment variables, use the ${env(VAR_NAME)} editor variable instead.
• ${date(pattern)} - Current date. The allowed patterns are equivalent to the ones in the Java SimpleDateFormat class. Example: yyyy-MM-dd;
  Note: This editor variable supports both the xs:date and xs:datetime parameters. For details about xs:date, go to http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#date. For details about xs:datetime, go to http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime.

For example, to show the current page number and the total number of pages in the top right corner of the page, write the following pattern in the Right text area of the Header section: ${cp} of ${tp}.

You can also set the Color and Font used in the header and footer. Default font is SansSerif.

You can place a line below the header or above the footer by selecting Underline/Overline.