September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 1m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition
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Printing, Fonts, and Text
For a company whose core audience includes graphic designers and photographers, the printing features of Mac OS X got off to a shaky start. With each new version of Mac OS X, however, the situation (especially regarding printer drivers) improves. In the meantime, you’ve got these helpful tips.
Custom Print Settings
It could happen to you: you have to print a document over and over in draft mode, then your hand becomes tired from changing the settings in the Print dialog box every time you need such a printout.
Fortunately (although few Mac fans realize it), the Print dialog box lets you save combinations of settings. To create custom print settings and then save them for future use, follow the directions in Figure 4-18.
Figure 4-18. To preserve printing settings, choose File Print to summon the Print dialog box. Make the settings you’d like to preserve. Before you click Print, choose Save As from the Presets pop-up menu, and give this setting combination a name. You can recall the whole shebang in the future by simply selecting this name from the pop-up menu.
Tip
To delete a custom setting from the Presets pop-up menu, choose it in the menu, and then choose Delete from the same menu.
View a Minimalist Font Panel
In Cocoa applications, you open the font panel by hitting
-T. This panel is relatively large as it consists of a preview area, columns for Collections, ...
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