How Can I Print/Export Content from Verbum?

Verbum allows you to preview, print, copy, or save content from many resources and tools. This article discusses the various Print/Export functions that Verbum offers and how to access and use them.

Note: The Print / Export features described in this article are available on desktop only. While not providing the same level of functionality and flexibility, you can use standard copy / paste mechanisms when running Verbum on the web or on mobile.

 

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Access the Print/Export Dialog

Navigate the Print/Export Dialog

Use the Print/Export Dialog

 

Access the Print/Export Dialog

Note: Generally, the print and export functions are standard across Verbum features. However, there can be variations, such as “Bibliography only,” depending on the feature. The access points may also vary from feature to feature.

Shortcuts

The easiest way to access the Print/Export dialog in any Verbum feature is by using the keyboard commands Cmd+P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows). This opens the dialog in a floating window. 

 

Share Tab

The Share tab of the Dynamic Toolbar houses all the options to share content from a book. Click the Print/Export button in this tab to access the Print/Export dialog, or view the other sharing options, like generating links or creating slides.

 

More Actions Menu

In many Verbum features, such as the Homily Builder or the Notes Tool, the Print/Export dialog can be opened from the More Actions Menu.

 

Navigate the Print/Export Dialog

Print Selection Pane

In the Print/Export dialog, the following options are available in the Print Settings Pane on the left:

• Margins: Choose from Normal, Narrow, Moderate, or Wide margins.
• Columns: Auto lets Verbum decide how many columns to use in printing your content, where Single prints the content in the standard single-column format. 
• Some features include a Print as shown on screen radio button. Where that is available, there will also be the alternate radio button: Print as exported. Where the number of displayed items is too large to fit on one page, Verbum provides the option to print Visible results only.
• Some panels, such as Sentence Diagram documents, include a Fit to page checkbox.
• For most resources, you can choose whether to print selected text, filtered text, specific pages (or verses), or specific sections.

 

Print Preview Panel

The central pane provides a preview of what will be printed.

• Scroll through multiple pages using the page number arrows at the bottom of the preview or using the mouse wheel.
• Zoom in or out by pressing the Ctrl key while using the mouse wheel, or press Ctrl++ to zoom in and Ctrl+- to zoom out (Windows only).

 

Print/Export Pane

The Print/Export Pane is divided into four sections: Printer Options, Page Options, the Print Button, and Export Options.

 

Printer Options

In this section, you can choose from the attached printers and designate particular printer properties if they are available.

 

Page Options

In this section, you can choose your paper size and page orientation.

 

Print Button

Click the Print button to send the job to the printer.

 

Export Options

The Export Options section offers four categories of actions:

• Copy to clipboard allows you to paste the content into another document of your choice.
• Save as file allows you to save the selected pages as one of several file types:
  • Rich Text Format (Word, etc.)
  • Text Document (Documents saved in .txt format will lose most of their formatting, hyperlinks included).
  • Web Page (HTML)
  • XPS Document (Windows), or PDF Document (Mac)
  • The four types above are present by default, but other file types will also be available depending on the content of the pages selected for export:
    • Image (choose from PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or GIF)
    • Spreadsheet (Excel, etc.)
    • Calendar (for Reading Plans)
    • Citation file types (for “Bibliography only” in Clippings and Collections).
• Send to new document opens a Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Keynote document and pastes the previewed content.
• Paste into open document pastes the previewed content into an open Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Keynote document.

Note: Available links depend on Apple or Microsoft Office software installed and opened and the panel being exported.

 

More Actions Menu

Click the More Actions Menu icon in the top right corner of the Print/Export dialog to reveal display options. For more information, see this article on the More Actions Menu.

 

Use the Print/Export Dialog

This section will discuss various use cases for the Print/Export dialog.

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Print/Export Selected Text

Print/Export Filtered Text

Print/Export Content from a Specified Location in a Resource

Print/Export a Particular Section of the Resource

Print/Export Syntax Graphs

Export Canvas as Image

Note: For reasons of copyright, you cannot print or export more than 100 pages of any resource at one time. For best results, do not print/export from dark mode.

 

Print/Export Selected Text

1. Select text in any resource.
2. Open the Print/Export dialog.
3. The Use selected text radio button will be pre-selected.
4. Print or export your document as normal.

 

Print/Export Filtered Text

1. Open a list of verses (by enabling a Passage List visual filter or performing an Inline Search) in your Top Bible.
2. Open the Print/Export dialog.
3. The Use filtered text radio button will be pre-selected.
4. Print or export your document as normal.

 

Print/Export Content from a Specified Location in a Resource

1. Open a resource to the location you'd like to print.
2. Click in the location box in the resource toolbar to select which active location you'd like to print.
   

   

3. Open the Print/Export dialog.
4. Select the radio button next to the text entry field to limit the printing to only the specified location and not the entire section (to print the section, see below).
   

   

5. Print or export your document as normal.

 

Print/Export a Particular Section of the Resource

1. Open the Print/Export dialog.
2. Select the Use these sections: radio button.
3. Check the box(es) for the section(s) you want to print.

   Tip: To select all the subsections under a section heading, right-click that heading and choose Select all. To clear the selections, right-click the heading and choose Clear all.

4. Set Columns to Auto or Single. 
   • Auto (multi-column) is the default setting.
   • The last setting will be remembered and is shared across all resources.
5. Print or export your document as normal.

 

Print/Export Syntax Graphs

1. Select a graph or graphs.
2. Open the Print/Export dialog.
3. Check the box next to Use selected text or Use current graph to preview the graph.
4. The Fit to page checkbox condenses a graph that may be too wide to fit on one page, so that it does not extend to a second page.
5. Print or export your document as normal.

 

Export Canvas as Image

In place of the standard Verbum Print/Export option, Canvas features the ability to export your document as an image. Clicking Export as Image from the panel menu opens a dialog allowing you to set the image's zoom percentage, borders, transparency, and more.

 

After selecting your settings, click Export. Verbum will process your export and open your operating system's file-saving dialog from which you can set the file name, save location, and image type. You can choose to save your image as a PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or GIF.

 

Additional Resources

Verbum Help: Print/Export