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kevs · Jun 30, 2004, 06:03 PM

You have a 10 page document and you preview it. You can't right then and there select page 8 and print just that page?

f1000 · Jul 3, 2004, 10:01 AM

When you see the Print dialog, type in the page number you want to print under Pages: From X to Y. X and Y should both equal the page number.

kevs · Jul 3, 2004, 12:23 PM

That does not seem to work. I type in 2 in box, and yet the whole 10 pages are spooled to the printer.

f1000 · Jul 3, 2004, 12:35 PM

Type '2' in both boxes.

PS: Can someone post a picture for kevs on how to do this?

chabig · Jul 3, 2004, 12:57 PM

From 2 to 2.

Or in Mac help, search for "printing part of a document"

Chris

kevs · Jul 4, 2004, 02:34 PM

Thanks, yes, I have not been clear. Let me start from scratch:

Let say I want to print this thread right here. I click command P, and my printer's driver comes up. So if I want just page 2, I click 2 in both boxes -- very simple.

But lets say I first want to preview, so i click preview. Now preview comes up.

Now this is where it gets confusing, so I'll try my best:

Here, there is ONLY ONE BOX. This box is between the back/forward buttons and the page up button. In the bottom right of the window is a blue PRINT button. And If I want to launch the print job from this box (WITHOUT HAVING TO GO BACK TO MY PRINT DRIVER) -- well I've tried, and can't figure it out. I put 2 in that box, and both pages still spool. If it's a ten page thread and I put 8 or 9 in that one box, the whole 10 pages spool.

IS THERE ANY WAY TO JUST SPOOL ONE PAGE ONLY IN PREVIEW WITHOUT HAVING TO GO BACK TO MY PRINTERS PRINT DRIVER. (which is what I've always been doing)

chabig · Jul 4, 2004, 02:42 PM

Short answer--no. You will always have to go back to a print dialog if you want to limit the printing to just a few pages. But you can do this from Preview. Even though you have a blue PRINT button in the lower right corner, you can also go back to File->Print and select the range from there.

Chris

Apfhex · Jul 4, 2004, 03:26 PM

You're mistaking Preview's toolbar items as options for printing. The print preview window doesn't have any /other/ print options either, so I think what they should do it just leave the print dialogue up when you click on the preview button (or, in fact, have the dialogue come back up when you click the print button in the preview window).

kevs · Jul 5, 2004, 12:01 AM

Thank You! It's now clear. Yes, I agree with those suggestions -- get rid of the print button or have it say PRINT ENTIRE DOCUMENT ONLY (although it would look lame and be hard to fit on a button)