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

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Set options as desired in the Print dialog’s panes.
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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.
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When you’re finished previewing the document, you have three options:

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