Preview User Guide
If you are new to the Mac operating system, you may be wondering how to print screen on a Mac. You may have already noticed the lack of a 'Print Screen' button on the keyboard. This should not make you feel that the process is complex. By using keyboard shortcuts, you can print screen on a Mac. 'Paint.NET is just about perfect.' - Lifehacker (June 2010) 'Impressive.' - PC World, Top 100 Products of 2007 'It raises the quality bar,' - Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror 'Paint.NET delivers a cost-effective alternative to pricey commercial software.' The Mac keyboard shortcut command P will perform the Print action. Print is a global Mac keyboard shortcut that is usually located in the File menu. This keyboard shortcut for Print is available in Mac OS X and may also be available with other versions of Mac OS. App: Operating System. Operating System: Mac.
In Preview, you can print some or all pages in a PDF, print several selected images on the same sheet of paper, and choose whether to include the document's notes when printing.
You can open and print a document with Preview even if you don't have the app that created it.
In the Preview app on your Mac, open a PDF or image you want to print.
If you want to print multiple files, you can open them in one Preview window.
To print only some of the PDF or image pages, choose View > Thumbnails, then Command-click the thumbnails for the pages you want to print.
Choose File > Print.
Choose print options (if you don't see them, click Show Details):
To print only selected thumbnails, select Selected Pages in Sidebar or Selected Images in Sidebar.
To print the same image or page multiple times on a sheet of paper, click the 'Copies per page' pop-up menu, then choose a number.
To rotate images or pages automatically so they fill up as much of the paper as possible, choose Auto Rotate.
To scale an image or page, select Scale, then enter a percentage.
To fill as much of the paper as possible, select Scale to Fit, then select Print Entire Image if you don't want the image cropped, or Fill Entire Paper if you want the image cropped to the proportions of the paper.
If notes are visible in a PDF's window, select Show Notes to include them in the printout.
Click Print.