Printing > Defining a print area

 

Defining a print area

You can use the Print Area feature to define a single print area within the work space for a document. The print area can incorporate selected areas of existing pages, as well as selected areas of the pasteboard. After you define the print area, you can resize or delete it, or view its dimensions in the Object inspector. When you save a document, the print area is saved as part of the document attributes.

You can use the Print Area feature to print multiple small pages, such as business cards, on a single sheet.

To define and print a print area in a document:

1

With the document displayed in the Document window, do one of the following:

Choose File > Print Area.

Click the Print Area button on the Main toolbar.

The cursor becomes a Print Area pointer when you roll over the pasteboard.

2

Drag the pointer in the document window to define the print area. To view and select multiple pages in the document, reduce the document magnification so that the pages are visible onscreen (see Magnifying and reducing the view).

Release the mouse and drag again to redefine the print area.

3

Click inside the defined print area. The Print Area dialog box (Windows) or Print dialog box (Macintosh) is displayed.

4

On Macintosh only: Select FreeHand 10 from the pop-up menu.

5

Select Print Page Boundary to print page boundaries. Deselect this option (the default setting) to print objects on pages, but not page boundaries.

6

Select additional printing options as needed (see Setting up to print and Setting PostScript prepress options).

7

Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh).

The defined print area is saved with the document.

To resize a print area:

Place the Print Area pointer on a corner or side handle and drag to resize the Print Area.

To move the print area on the pasteboard:

Do one of the following:

Place the Print Area pointer on the area boundary (not on a corner or side handle). The cursor turns into a Hand tool. Drag to reposition the print area.

Use the arrow keys to nudge the print area in the appropriate direction.

To delete a Print Area definition:

Do one of the following:

Click outside the defined print area.

Press Escape.

Press Delete.

Drag to define a new print area.