CS2: can you print just part of a page?

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

Can't find in the ID Help or on this forum any information about printing just a part of a given page...not as a tile but just as a particular section that wants to be proofed, for instance. Can this be done?

Thanks for any tips.

w.

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

Can't find in the ID Help or on this forum any information about printing only part of a given page...not as a tile but as a particular section that wants to be hard-copy proofed, for instance. Can this be done?

Thanks for any tips.

w.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I don't fully understand what you're trying to achieve. Why not just print the whole page or a tile? Are you trying to print a non-rectangular section of the page?

You could always move the stuff you don't want to print to a different layer and then hide the layer.

Dave

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

Hi Dave. I'm trying to replicate a Freehand ability. With a very oversize page, I want to proof a small portion of it at 100% on an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper without having to output the whole thing as tiles. How's that?

Maybe it's possible to drag a tile icon around on a page in a print dialog box somewhere to encompass just a part of it that you choose?

w.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Just drag the zero point to where you want the top left corner of the tile to be and print a tile.

Dave

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

Hey now...how'd you get to be so smart?

; -- )

Thanks, Dave.

w.

[DavidT]

Another way is to save as pdf and bring that back into ID, cropping unwanted areas.

[peterpica]

Intools has a nifty function for this also that allows you to grab sections of a page and print or save to PDF with or w/o crops, etc.

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

Hi David and Peter:

Thanks for your input as well.

w.

[Buko@adobeforums.com]

Hey now...how'd you get to be so smart?




Dave read the manual.

[DavidT]

Hey now...how'd you get to be so smart?





Dave read the manual.




Where d'you get this manual on how to be smart?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Don't worry about it, David, you don't need it.

Dave

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

OK, then where can I get this manual on how to be smart? Obviously I'm not so well-endowed as David.

w.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Anyone who leaves a smart answer here doesn't need the manual.

Dave

[chris@adsrus.com]

I think someone has "brain envy"
hahaha
Sorry.... couldn't resist taking this even further off topic!!!
:-D

Chris

[Warren_Wilkins@adobeforums.com]

More to the point, Chris, I think someone was being a good sport. But you're right about the off-topic aspect. I'm signing off from this one. Thanks to all of you who provided useful information in response to the original query.

w.