[Deal]

The spelling feature mentioned below is cool. It even works on this text! Good to know.

Did you know you can drop any file or folder on to Print Center and it will print to the default printer?

What I like is if you drop a folder on it it prints the contents of the folder in a list. Very Nice!

Does anybody know if it can print and show folder sizes. I have Show All sizes selected for that window. But when I drop print, it still prints the same list (shows file sizes but not folder sizes).

Another feature I found not too long ago, If you are in column view and double click the little double vertical bars between the columns, it will auto size the column to fit the longest item in it. I love OS X.

[- - e r i k - -]

The last feature was the only one I didn't know about. That really rocks

[-Q-]

I love learning new things. Thanks for the tips!

[Geobunny]

Originally posted by Deal:

Another feature I found not too long ago, If you are in column view and double click the little double vertical bars between the columns, it will auto size the column to fit the longest item in it. I love OS X.

This last one was the only one I didn't know about...and I'm now asking myself why I never tried it before - it works in spreadsheet applications, so it would make sense. D'oh, thanks.

[kupan787]

Originally posted by Deal:
Did you know you can drop any file or folder on to Print Center and it will print to the default printer?

Doesn't want to work with TIFF files for me. Everything else works (PDF, RTF, etc), but TIFF just never prints (it never even shows in the "queue").

[OwlBoy]

Ok, the reason it works:

The drag and drop action has both the names of the files, and what kind they are in it.

So, when you drag and drop things, the app looks at the drag and drop action, and picks out the info it thinks it can use. Print center sees the listing of text names, and says "hey! thats a bunch of text, I can print it!"

Hmmm, well, thats how I look at it.

Just explaining it in a bit too much detail. (?)

-Owl

[:XI:]

Here's a little thing I just found out. (I read it in a tips booklet/magazine. I didn't know about it, so I thought I'd share.)

Open textedit, open the fonts panel (cmd-t), see the space between the top of the window and the column headings? Click & hold then drag down. You'll get a preview of the selected type.

But you probably all know this

[chris v]

Originally posted by :XI::
Here's a little thing I just found out. (I read it in a tips booklet/magazine. I didn't know about it, so I thought I'd share.)

Open textedit, open the fonts panel (cmd-t), see the space between the top of the window and the column headings? Click & hold then drag down. You'll get a preview of the selected type.

But you probably all know this

Yeah, I knew this. It was shown to me by my wife, Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Cool.

CV

[Geobunny]

Originally posted by :XI::
Here's a little thing I just found out. (I read it in a tips booklet/magazine. I didn't know about it, so I thought I'd share.)

Open textedit, open the fonts panel (cmd-t), see the space between the top of the window and the column headings? Click & hold then drag down. You'll get a preview of the selected type.

But you probably all know this

Well bu*ger me! That's class, how on earth did anyone fid that?! It doesn't even have the three wee lines that tell you it can be moved. Thanks for that.

[Deal]

Originally posted by kupan787:
Doesn't want to work with TIFF files for me. Everything else works (PDF, RTF, etc), but TIFF just never prints (it never even shows in the "queue").

When you drop an Image onto the Print Center, it looks like it needs to associate with a program before the print dialog opens up (which makes sense due to the fact that a print needs some page setup info and page setup info is handled on an application basis).

If it is associated with Preview it won't work. Preview doesn't seem to pass the call back to the Print Center and everything stops.

Do a Get info on a TIFF and tell it to open with some other image application, then click Change All. Then try dropping it on the print center again.

The only painful part of this is if you choose Photoshop and Photoshop isn't running, it takes a while for it to launch before the print dialog comes up. I guess we all need dual processor G5's.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Deal:
When you drop an Image onto the Print Center, it looks like it needs to associate with a program before the print dialog opens up (which makes sense due to the fact that a print needs some page setup info and page setup info is handled on an application basis).

If it is associated with Preview it won't work. Preview doesn't seem to pass the call back to the Print Center and everything stops.

Do a Get info on a TIFF and tell it to open with some other image application, then click Change All. Then try dropping it on the print center again.

The only painful part of this is if you choose Photoshop and Photoshop isn't running, it takes a while for it to launch before the print dialog comes up. I guess we all need dual processor G5's.

Indeed. It seems I can drag a Word .doc on Print Center, and it instantly opens Word and prints the document. So that "Print" command that used to be in the OS 9 Finder that allowed you to click on a file and hit Command-P, and which would launch the appropriate application and initiate its "Print" command - that functionality has been under the hood in OS X the whole time, but they just never implemented it in the Finder. Grr...

I think I'm going to send feedback on this right now.

[JLL]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Indeed. It seems I can drag a Word .doc on Print Center, and it instantly opens Word and prints the document.

Try and drag multiple Word documents on Print Center - that doesn't work for me.