| 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 1. | Set options as desired in the Print dialog's panes. | 2. | 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.
| 3. | When you're finished previewing the document, you have three options: Choose File > Print, press , or click the Print button at the bottom of the Preview window (Figure 63) to display the Print dialog and print the document from Preview. Choose File > Save As or press to display a Save dialog (Figure 64) and save the document as a PDF or graphic format file from within Preview. Figure 64. Use a standard Save Location dialog to save the document as a PDF file.
Choose Preview > Quit Preview or press to quit Preview and return to the original document.
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Tips Preview is covered in Chapter 8. The Save dialog is covered in Chapter 7. Some applications, such as Microsoft Word, include a Print Preview command on their File menu. This displays a preview of the document from within the application and does not use Preview.
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