Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Page Setup

The Page Setup dialog, which you can summon with most applications through File → Page Setup (Shift-

-P), lets you define paper size, orientation, and scale options. These options apply for the current application; at the start of the printing process, it consults them in order to figure out the dimensions of the rectangle that it will draw to for each page. The system remembers them until the application quits—the next time you launch that application, Page Setup’s values will return to their defaults.

The standard dialog contains the following controls, as seen in Figure 8-8:

Settings

This pop-up menu switches the dialog’s view between the Page Attributes control panel and a summary of all its current settings. The summary includes a detailed rundown of the selected paper size’s dimensions, including margins.

Format for

This menu specifies the printers that the Page Setup dialog’s settings affect. The default choice is Any Printer, but you can click on the menu to select any other single printer in your printer list (see Section 8.3.1). Page Setup can store several sets of options in parallel, one for each printer, as well as the Any Printer set (which acts as default for any printers whose Page Setup options you don’t specifically change).

Paper Size

Clicking this menu reveals all the paper sizes available through the printer selected under the “Format for” menu. These sizes ...