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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Print preview in System 7 | Posted by: feeef on 2014-11-06 09:19:21
A quick question :
Is there a way to get a print preview of the page I am about to print on System 7? Just to check if everything fits well on the page.
Thanks! 🙂
| Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2014-11-06 11:35:25
It's a per-application deal. I know I can do a print preview on Word 6. You can always print to a PDF/PostScript file as well, and while it's a bit more effort, it's universal.
| Posted by: feeef on 2014-11-07 00:30:03
Thanks for your help IPalindromel!
I have found a way to correctly print with Photoshop 5.5 (which was my main problem). With a print preview I would have changed the scale (%) of the output to fit into my A4 page. It is what I do on OS X but I guess this is not the good way to do it. At least on System 7.
Instead, I go to the menu Image > Image Size and, here, I can see and update the size of the printable area of my document. It automatically re-calculate the whole document size as soon as you modify one of these values (width, height or resolution).
BTW, I have setup a network printer through Netatalk on my Linux VM. If you do so, make sure that on your classic Mac OS, on the print dialog, you go to the Photoshop settings and chose "JPEG" for the encoding instead of "Binary". Otherwise the printer server will throw an error.
| Posted by: Elfen on 2014-11-08 07:28:43
IPalindromel is correct; you can find a version of Adobe .PDF Printer for System 6-9 online. Select it on the Chooser and then print to it and and it create a .pdf file of the job you are working on.
Going into Image and then to Image Size, you are changing the entire image size and resolution irreversibly. Best to save the original file before such a change and then save a second version and give it a different name - like "File Name-Printable.psd". Then work with the second file. This way is something were to really mess up, and you need to revert to file's original image, you can just reload the original file.
I know there are a set number of UNDO's in PS, but if you exceed them, you might not be able to go back to your original file. this way you saved a copy of it or "Just In Case."
| Posted by: feeef on 2014-11-08 07:50:01
Thanks for the tips Elfen!
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