iLife '04: The Missing Manual

Printing

How many things can go wrong when you print? Let us count the ways.

I can’t print more than one photo per page.

Check the following:

• Have you, in fact, selected more than one photo to print?

• Choose File → Page Setup. Make sure the paper size is US Letter (or whatever paper you’ve loaded). Click OK.

• Choose File → Print. From the Presets pop-up menu, choose Standard; from the Style pop-up menu, choose N-Up; then choose a number from the “Photos per page” pop-up. (Make sure “One photo per page” is turned off.) You’ll now see all of your selected images side by side in the preview pane. They’re ready to print.

Figure 31-1. Top: First, make sure that Image Capture, not iPhoto, intercepts and downloads the photos when you connect your digital camera. To do so, open Image Capture, then choose Image Capture → Preferences. From the Camera Preferences popup menu, choose Image Capture. You could even choose another program to intervene when your camera is plugged in (by choosing Other). Middle: This is the main Image Capture window that now appears when you plug in your camera. To download only some of the photos, click Download Some. Bottom: This “slide sorter” window is where you can choose the individual pictures you want to download. Or, use the buttons at the top to rotate or delete selected shots from the camera. In slide sorter view, Shift-click or -click the thumbnails of the pictures ...