Previewing Documents
The Print dialog enables you to create and view previews of your documents. You might want to use this feature to check the appearance of a document before printing it.
To preview a document
| 1. | Set options as desired in the Print dialog's panes. |
| 2. | In any pane of the Print dialog (Figure 36 ), click the Preview button. The Print dialog disappears and Mac OS opens Preview. A moment later, the document appears in a Preview window (Figure 63 ).Figure 63. The Preview button displays the document in a Preview window. You can use controls in the window's toolbar or commands in the View menu to scroll through document contents.[View full size image] ![]() |
| 3. | When you're finished previewing the document, you have three options:
, or click the Print button at the bottom of the Preview window (Figure 63 ) to display the Print dialog and print the document from Preview.Choose File > Save As or press to display a Save dialog (Figure 64 ) and save the document as a PDF or graphic format file from within Preview.Figure 64. Use a standard Save Location dialog to save the document as a PDF file.![]() to quit Preview and return to the original document. |
Chapter 8 . The Save dialog is covered in Chapter 7 .Some applications, such as Microsoft Word, include a Print Preview command on their File menu. This displays a preview of the document from within the application and does not use Preview.

, or click the Print button at the bottom of the Preview window (
to display a Save dialog (
to quit Preview and return to the original document.