# How to Print Photos, PDFs and Text Files in ComfortFiles
ComfortFiles is a Windows Explorer-style file manager for macOS.
Select what you want on paper and press ⌘P. The whole selection goes into **one print dialog** — no opening each file in Preview first, no printing them one at a time.
## Three ways to print
- **Keyboard:** select the files and press ⌘P, or use **File ▸ Print…** in the menu bar.
- **Right-click:** **Print…** sits just below **Open with**.
- **[Preview panel](/how-to/preview-panel/):** with one file selected, **Print** is among the buttons, right after **Open** — handy when you have just looked at the picture and decided it is the one.
## What prints, and how it comes out
| What you select | How it prints |
|---|---|
| **Photos and pictures** | One page each, in its own shape. A landscape photo turns to fit the paper. A picture smaller than the page prints at its own size rather than being blown up to the margins — a passport photo stays passport-sized |
| **PDFs** | Every page, as it is |
| **Text files and code** | In an even-width font, so columns and indentation line up the way they do on screen |
| **Markdown** | As the formatted document, not its markup |
| **RTF** | With its own fonts and styles |
**Several files make one job, in the order the list shows them.** Sort the folder first and the paper comes out in that order.
Text files written on Windows print correctly too: a `.txt` in Cyrillic, Western European or Chinese encoding is recognised rather than printed as gibberish. Text is always black on white, even when your Mac is in dark mode.
## What does not print from here
Word documents, spreadsheets, slide decks and web pages belong to the app that made them — it knows the page layout, and ComfortFiles would only be guessing. Open the file (double-click, or **Open with**) and print from there.
Print is not offered at all when the selection mixes the two — nine photos and one spreadsheet — rather than printing the nine and saying nothing about the tenth. Very large text files (over 2 MB) are left to a text editor for the same reason: laying out hundreds of pages would hold the window up.
## Good to know
- Everything happens on your Mac, in the standard macOS print dialog: your printer, copies, page range, paper size. Nothing is uploaded.
- The dialog's **PDF ▸ Save as PDF** turns the whole selection into a single PDF — a quick way to combine several scans or photos into one file.
- To join existing PDFs rather than print them, use [PDF tools ▸ Merge](/how-to/pdf-tools/).
## Frequently asked questions
### Can I print several photos at once on a Mac?
Yes. Select them all in the file list and press ⌘P, or right-click and choose Print…. They go to the printer as one job, through one print dialog, in the order the list shows them — you do not open each picture in Preview and print it on its own.
### Which files can ComfortFiles print?
Photos and pictures, PDFs, and text: plain text files, source code, Markdown and RTF. Anything else — a Word document, a spreadsheet, a slide deck — is printed from the app that made it, which knows its layout better than any file manager.
### Why is Print missing from the menu?
Because the selection holds something ComfortFiles does not print itself, such as a Word or Excel file. Print is offered only when every selected file can be printed: nine photos and one spreadsheet is not one print job, and printing the nine while quietly skipping the tenth would be worse than not offering it.
### Does a Markdown file print as formatted text or as markup?
As formatted text — headings, lists and links laid out the way the Markdown preview shows them, not the asterisks and hash signs of the source.
### Will a text file print as white text if my Mac is in dark mode?
No. Printing always uses black text on white paper, whatever the Mac is set to.
### Can I save the selection as one PDF instead of printing it?
Yes — the print dialog has a PDF menu in its lower-left corner, and Save as PDF there writes the whole print job, every photo and page in it, into a single PDF file.