Export & print

Numlex exports a sheet as a PDF or prints it without ever touching the live editor. Both paths render the evaluated sheet exactly as it is on screen, so the PDF and the printed page agree with each other. Every option is session-only, the whole path is offline, and a failed or cancelled save never leaves a partial file.

File menu

The File menu owns exactly these sheet commands:

Command	Shortcut	What it does
Import Sheet…	⌘I	Opens a .nlx file as a new sheet
Export Sheet (.nlx)…	⌘E	Writes the portable .nlx document
Export Sheet as PDF…	—	Opens the PDF export options sheet, then the native save panel
Print…	⌘P	Opens the same options sheet, then the standard macOS print panel

There is exactly one Print… item, in the standard File-menu position, and it is never duplicated by the system. .nlx and PDF are distinct, unambiguous items.

What is captured

When the options sheet opens, Numlex takes a fixed view of the selected sheet and its settings:

• the full sheet is resolved first, so variables, references, tokens, inline totals and every syntax rule behave exactly as on screen;
• syntax highlighting is taken from the same view (dates, weather/geo, units and finance included);
• per-line precision, notation and persistent highlights are preserved;
• the footer Total aggregates the exported evaluated rows only and inline total rows are never double-counted. With the full range the Total is the live footer.

The editor view is never screenshotted or modified: the live document, selection, caret and typing state are untouched by presenting, cancelling, exporting or printing.

Options

Every option is session-only — it never enters the settings store or .nlx. The last choices are kept while the app is running and clamped to each newly selected sheet, so a stale line range can never become invalid on a shorter sheet.

Option	Default	Behavior
Font family	Notebook font	Any installed family; a missing family falls back to the notebook font
Face	Regular	Faces of the chosen family; a missing face falls back to the family’s first face
Size	Current notebook size	8…36 pt
Syntax highlighting	On	On: the existing semantic roles and print-safe colors; Off: readable monochrome body text (token capsules stay legible)
Line numbers	On	The original 1-based source numbers; numbers are never renumbered after filtering
Show total	On	The footer Total once, after the final exported row; it may start a new page
Hide comments	Off	Drops the evaluator’s // comment rows entirely
Hide # markers	Off	Strips one leading # plus at most one separator space; the heading role, typography and content survive
Lines	All	All, or an inclusive 1-based From/To range; invalid or empty ranges show an inline message and disable the action

If a range plus filters leave nothing printable, the action is disabled and explains why — a blank or corrupt PDF is never produced.

Page layout

• White printable pages on the locale-appropriate default paper from the system print info, with sensible margins.
• A sheet-title header and an N / M page label on every page.
• The original source line numbers in an optional gutter.
• Expression and answer columns; # heading typography; persistent highlight fills; wrapped text; rows aligned line by line.
• Inline answer tokens are drawn as the same capsule labels the editor shows (each placeholder maps to its live token resolution; a broken token shows its remembered Line N).
• Width is guaranteed, not clipped: columns never spill into each other or past a margin. Long labels and unbreakable words (identifiers, URLs, numeric strings) wrap or break safely, and text is never split mid-character.
• Source whitespace is preserved: leading, repeated and internal spaces and tabs are kept, and line breaks never delete a space. Answers wrap to fit, so 3 years 2 months stays on one line when it fits.
• Page chrome stays inside the margins: the sheet title truncates with an ellipsis before it can touch the page label, and a Total wider than the content area wraps onto its own line.
• Rows stay intact when they fit; only a row taller than the page body is split. Page breaks are predictable.
• The footer shows the current footer statistic (Sum, Average, Count or Median) with its localized label; over a partial range the statistic is computed over the exported rows only. Count prints as an exact integer.
• The PDF carries the sheet title as its document title and Numlex as author. A failed or cancelled save leaves no partial file.

Privacy and offline behavior

Export and print are completely offline: no network request, no clipboard access, no analytics, and no data leaves your Mac except to the destination you choose in the save panel (or the printer you select). Printing uses the standard macOS print panel with its normal page controls. Cancelling the options sheet, the save panel or the print panel changes nothing.

Related

• Sheets & files — named sheets, folders, local storage and .nlx import/export.
• Tags, subtotals & statistics — derived rows and the configurable footer statistic that export preserves.
• Privacy & network — the full local-first picture.