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### 5.10 Printing and exporting schematics

File → Print... (`F P` or `Ctrl+P`) will open a standard GTK printing dialog. Choose your print destination, a file to print to, or a printer, change printing settings if needed and go ahead. If you print to a file, you can choose the file format, e.g. PDF or PostScript. The button ‘`Print Preview`’ lets you see the preview of your page when it is printed.

> Note: GTK2 and GTK3 standard printing dialogs may support different output formats.

> Note: You can also output PDF with the File → Write Image... menu (see below) or export your schematics and symbols with the `lepton-cli` command (see lepton-cli export).

File → Write Image... (`F I`) is used for exporting schematic and symbol pages as images. In the export dialog box you can choose one of several supported image format options, including PDF, as well as one of predefined size of the image, and whether the image should be colored or black-and-white. The sizes are not relevant for PDF files, those will be sized to fit the visible contents of your schematic or symbol page. The `lepton-cli` utility allows more accurate control of the image properties so if you want to set some custom options, please use it (see lepton-cli export).