|
|
Page Setup -- Preview
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: New York City
Status:
Offline
|
|
In my workflow I distill from a windows program drawings that I print with Preview. For whatever reason Preview in my set up always defaults to default (8 1/2 x 11") rather than what I set the file's attribute to be. This means I have to reset the paper size of each drawing every time I open the .pdfs to print them.
If I set another paper size default then, obviously, all of my letter sized correspondence doesn't work.
Is there a way to "save" the Page Setup Attribute for each drawing (I don't want to change the default) -- or should I be using something other than Preview for printing?
TIA
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Admin Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Status:
Offline
|
|
Preview's (and Adobe Reader's) page setup dialog doesn't grab the page size from the PDF because the PDF's size may not even exist on your printer. Page Setup can't be set to a size your printer can't do -- the available values are those provided by the print driver. Never mind that page sizes in PDFs need not even be consistent: if you make, say, a book layout in InDesign, the spreads will not be on the same size as the first page, since it won't be a spread.
This is pretty normal behavior for applications. If it's impossible for an app to consistently make correct assumptions, it's better that it make no assumptions at all and let you set it.
tooki
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: New York City
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks, Took. I'm happy to set it, but somehow, the setting doesn't stick, such that when I re-open the .pdf saved for 11x17 it defaults to 8 1/2 x 11".
I guess I'm surprised -- if this computer can, e.g., search out other iTunes libraries on a network you would think it could save a format for printing to each file.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Trafalmadore
Status:
Offline
|
|
In the printer Page Setup dialog, click the Settings drop-down menu and select Save as Default after setting the page size and setup you want as the default. It is the only way it is going to stick. Then change it to another Preset later.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|