About printing
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Document printing options
With MapPoint, you can print many different types of maps, as well as driving directions for a route. The following is a list of the types of documents you can print.
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Current map view Prints the area of the map currently displayed on your screen.
Note You can also print the map as a full-page map when printing the current map view. The printed area of a full-page map extends the current map view to include as much of the map as fits on the page.
Driving directions only Prints the driving directions for your calculated route as text. Does not print maps.
Turn-by-turn maps Prints small maps of the intersection of every turn along the route. The driving directions for each turn are printed below the associated map.
Strip maps Prints consecutive portions of a map on the left side of each page with the corresponding directions on the right. For routes that are printed on multiple pages, the strip map shows the portion of the route included in the current page of the directions.
Selected area map Prints only the area of the map you have selected with the Select tool.
Highlighted places maps Prints street-level maps, with associated text, for each place or Pushpin that has been highlighted on the map.
Faxable map Prints a high-contrast gray-scale map that is suitable for faxing.
Along with your document, you can include the following additional information:
Overview Map Prints an Overview Map along with your document. If you are printing a route, the Overview Map shows the entire route.
Map legend Prints the map legend along with your document.
Summary statistics Prints the summary information about your route, including distance, duration of trip, driving time, and cost.
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Print a highlighted place or Pushpin
Print settings
MapPoint allows you to fine-tune how you want your document to appear.
You can adjust the print quality in the following ways:
Draft Maps are printed at the highest speed with slightly less detail than the other selections.
Standard (default) Maps are printed with good detail at an average speed.
Presentation Maps are printed at the highest level of detail at a slower speed than the other selections. This type of printout requires more computer memory resources than the other types.
For maps that contain routes, you can set the page breaks so that your document prints in one of the following ways:
Prints a route on as few pages as possible.
Prints high-detail strip maps at a low altitude using more pages.
Prints each stop on a separate page.
Prints each day of your trip on a separate page.
Prints a new page every certain number of miles or kilometers or hours as designated by you.
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Set the paper size, margins, and page orientation
Printing to a file
Instead of sending a document to the printer, printing to a file saves your document as a file that you can print later. A printer file includes the necessary information from your document so that formatting is retained when you print. Any printer that uses the same printer language (for example, PostScript) can print the file and match the output from your computer, provided that the document fonts are available on the printer. Also, when you use a printer file, you can print your document from a computer that doesn't have MapPoint installed.