Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:

> 
> barney wrote:
>> 
>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> 
>> > barney wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've been playing with print preview.  It's a good start, but I haven't
>> >> figured out how to get out of it and back to "normal" view of the page
>> >> except by a Reload.
>> >>
>> >> Is there another trick, or is "undo print preview" a future embellishment?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Add a "tab" then right-click on the "tab" with the print preview loaded
>> > and "close tab" .... Band-aid until something else is available.
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> What you suggest blows the page (and tab history) away, which may be
>> rather undesirable.  A Reload takes it out of print preview mode and
>> back to normal page view.  I guess that really is the only way, at least
>> for now.
> 
> I thought print preview was part of the print Driver.
> 
> In Communicator (Mac Platform) To do a print preview you:
> 
> 
> In Chooser choose desired printer (if haven't been set.
> 
> In Page setup set page size and orientation (if haven't already been set).
> 
> Choose print.... in File menu.
> 
> when print window opens you set number of copies (if more than one).
> 
> set Page range (you want specific page printed)
> 
> Then click on Print to print Page(s), OR, click on Preview.
> 
> If Preview is clicked then a preview of the pages are shown on monitor screen.
> 
> On the Mac if you want to get out of the preview "just click CANCEL".
> The preview is dimissed and your thrown back back out of the print
> command. You choose "print...." again and the window opens up  set the
> number of pagesa and Range as before. If your preview showed what you
> wanted you click PRINT.
> 
> Is this not the way it works in windows? With Unix being all command
> line (unless they are using a form of X-Windows) I wouldn't know whether
> they have a print setup and print Command.
> 
> Print and Print Preview is a combination of the system and the
> application to which the print command  being used (in Mac System).
> 
> Why is it difficult to get working in Moz/N6?
> 
> 

There is no resemblence to what you describe, and what mozilla does with
Print Preview on Windows.  There is no printer dialog involved at all.


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