tailieunhanh - Making the Printout

. Making the Printout The experience of printing depends on the printer you're using—laser printer, inkjet, or whatever. In every case, however | . Making the Printout The experience of printing depends on the printer you re using laser printer inkjet or whatever. In every case however all the printing options hide behind two commands File Page Setup which you need to adjust only occasionally and File Print which you generally use every time you print. You ll find these two commands in almost every Macintosh program. . Page Setup The Page Setup dialog box lets you specify some key characteristics about the document you re going to print orientation paper dimensions and so on see Figure 14-2. The options here vary by program and printer. The Page Setup options for an Epson inkjet for example differ dramatically from those for a laser printer. Only your printer s user manual can tell you exactly what these choices do. Tip You must configure the Page Setup settings independently in each program you use. And by the way to change the default paper size for all new documents choose Save As Default from the Settings pop-up menu. Mac fans in the UK You re welcome. . The Print Command Although you can grow to a ripe old age without ever seeing the Page Setup dialog box you can t miss the Print dialog box. It appears like it or not whenever you choose File Print in one of your programs. Once again the options you encounter depend on the printer you re using. In Leopard they also depend on whether or not you expand the dialog box by clicking the button doing so reveals a lot of useful options including a handy preview see Figure 143. Note The exact layout of this expanded Print dialog box differs by program but most modern ones resemble Figure 14-3. Figure 14-2. Here in Page Setup are the controls you need to print a document rotated sideways on the page so it prints the long way. The Scale control which lets you reduce or enlarge your document can be handy if the program you re using doesn t offer such a control. And the Paper Size pop-up menu of course specifies the size of the paper you re printing .