“True” Font Sizing When Printing in OmniOutliner Pro
OmniOutliner Pro is an intuitive and powerful application, but it hasn’t yet achieved perfection. One aspect of OOP that baffles some users is printing.
By default, OOP resizes pages so the content matches the width of your document. This means that if you’re like me and you like to stretch your OmniOutliner document window fairly wide as you’re taking notes or making edits, if you go to print those notes you’ll be in for a surprise. The font size on the printed version of your notes will not match the font you used in creating your notes.
Here’s how you make OOP print your notes in the correct font size:
While in OOP, go to File -> Page Setup. Use the Settings pulldown menu to select OmniOutliner Pro.
When the OmniOutliner Pro print settings come up, uncheck the Scale to Fit Page Width checkbox.
You’re not done yet. Now in your OOP document, select the lower right corner of the document window and drag it in to the left. When you get close to the standard print width, a red vertical line will appear, floating over your notes. Keep dragging until you meet that line. Let go of the document window. The text will reflow accordingly. If you don’t take this last step, your document will print with the correct font sizing, but unhappiness will result. Trust me. I know from experience.
Note: I am using OmniOutliner Pro 3.6.2.
Christina wrote,
Hi Erik,
Thank you for taking the time to write this post. Your post was extremely helpful.
Christina
Link | July 1st, 2007 at 5:27 am
A reader wrote,
Great tip! The scaling has always been an annoyance, but it never occured to me that it could be turned off.
Link | July 1st, 2007 at 8:09 am
Joshua Holt wrote,
Thanks Erik, that’s a great tip!
Link | July 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Larry Weintraub wrote,
Erik,
This is Larry from Maclaw. I just tried this on my outilne and it worked! I had prepared some notes for a conference and needed my glasses to read them as I couldn’t figure out why the fonts would not print to their true size. OO should make this an FAQ or put a warning next to the checkbox for sizing the document to the page width.
Thanks again.
Larry
Link | October 12th, 2007 at 12:34 am
Erik wrote,
Larry,
Glad it helped. I’ve already put a request in to the folks at Omni Group, and there’s been some discussion about this issue in their online fora, so hopefully a future revision will make printing a bit easier.
Link | October 12th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Jen wrote,
I love you. I’m a new mac law student using OOP based on your advice. I figured out on my own how to turn off the scale to width feature, but just before I tried to find a new outliner that would print better, I found this post. Thanks!
Link | October 14th, 2007 at 6:50 pm