PrintingStyleEnvironment

PrintingStyleEnvironment

is an option for notebooks that specifies the style environment to be used in printing the notebook on paper.

Details

  • Style environments appropriate for printed output are typically substantially denser than those appropriate for on‐screen display.
  • PrintingStyleEnvironment is also used when exporting to document formats that typically represent virtual sheets of paper, such as PDF and EPS.

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Open a notebook file:

Check the current setting of PrintingStyleEnvironment:

This is how the printed page looks with the "Printout" style environment:

Change PrintingStyleEnvironment to change the appearance of the printout:

After closing the external PDF application, close the notebook and delete the temporary files:

Wolfram Research (1996), PrintingStyleEnvironment, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), PrintingStyleEnvironment, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "PrintingStyleEnvironment." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). PrintingStyleEnvironment. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_printingstyleenvironment, author="Wolfram Research", title="{PrintingStyleEnvironment}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html}", note=[Accessed: 26-July-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_printingstyleenvironment, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={PrintingStyleEnvironment}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/PrintingStyleEnvironment.html}, note=[Accessed: 26-July-2025 ]}