Printing a Selection in macOS
Oct/10/2016 04:08 PM Categories:Apple
Printing a selection of a page is straight forward in Windows, but a little trickier to accomplish on a Mac. Once this skill has been mastered you will find it far more powerful than printing a selection in Windows. Follow the steps below and practice it a few times:
Sounds tricky, but it achieves the task, and once practiced a few times it becomes easy and only a few seconds to accomplish.
You can also save the cropped Preview pages for printing later.
You can also combine a group of cropped pages for printing them on fewer sheets of paper.
- Command P to open the print dialog.
- Select the PDF button at the bottom of the dialog:
- Select "Open page in Preview".
- Tools > Rectangular Selection to bing up the selection tool.
- With the Preview selection tool, select the area you wish to print.
- Command K to crop the page to the selection.
- Command P to open the print dialog.
Sounds tricky, but it achieves the task, and once practiced a few times it becomes easy and only a few seconds to accomplish.
You can also save the cropped Preview pages for printing later.
You can also combine a group of cropped pages for printing them on fewer sheets of paper.