With Mac OS X, you can get a print preview of anything you want to print using the “Preview” application. Whenever you want to print something in Mac OS X, go to the “File” menu and choose “Print…”. Within the print dialog box, click the “Preview” button. This will give you a preview of what your print out should look like and will also tell you how many pages your print out will be. This is very useful, especially when printing things off the Internet. Many websites will have your printer print out a useless last page. In print preview, you can spot this and prevent it from being printed. Perhaps what you are printing is six pages long, but you only need the first five pages, simply go to “File” “Print…” and under the “Pages:” section click the bubble next to “From:” and type in “1” “to:” “5”.
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I like this preview a lot, and i just learned how to setup different “presets” with predefined settings (I now use “2up duplex” by default)
but what if I want to select a sequence of pages that are not all in order?
e.g. Pages: 1,3,19-44
This was exactly what I wanted to do the second time I used my new mac to print. i hope this is possible somehow… now i had to print three times and waste two extra sheets of paper.
I figured out a way of doing this… simply select these pages in preview and the choose “print selected pages”.. nice