Exporting the file to other formats
If you want to save your file as in or PDF format, it is not recommended that you use the printing function and redirect the printer output to a file. Instead, you can use the export functions which produce better-quality output that retains many of the special features of the dvi format and looks better in many of the viewing applications, such as Adobe's Acrobat Reader. You will find the export functions in the File menu.

Exporting to
As in printing, the external program dvips is used to generate the file. If the file contains hyperlinks, these will also be included in the file. If you are an expert, and if you would like to generate output which is optimized for a specific printer, you should probably start dvips manually and choose the proper MetaFont mode yourself.

Exporting to PDF
In order to produce PDF files of high quality, converts to PDF using the external program dvipdfm. If you are working on a machine where an older distribution of the TeX typesetting system is installed, it may be that the programm dvipdfm is not installed. In that case, you need to use the printing function to generate PDF output.
If you are viewing the generated file in Adobe's Acrobat reader, you may well find that some of the fonts look extremely poor although a printout is fine, and although the document looks ok in ghostview. This is a known issue with the Acrobat Reader and bitmap fonts. At the time of writing, the only practicable workaround seems to be to avoid bitmap fonts.