mccarlson Author

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How to print the top (or bottom) half ONLY of a page in Preview

I'm trying to proofread a music document that is for 11X17 paper. I have converted it to PDF, and now I want to print out just the top half of the page (a perfect fit for letter size, landscape), and then to print the bottom half of the page. I don't want to join them together--it's just so I can proofread a printed-out copy.

I have googled this question several times, and it tells me how to print half of the number of pages in the document, but not half of ONE PAGE of a document.

Is there a way to do that?

iMac 27″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Aug 8, 2021 6:53 PM

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Aug 8, 2021 6:56 PM in response to mccarlson

Not really. The best you can do is to tile the document so the top and bottom print on two pages, or reduce the size to print on one page.

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Aug 8, 2021 7:08 PM in response to mccarlson

Try -

Open the document in Preview.

Go to the menu Tools > Rectangular Selection

Draw a selection of the top half of the document. Type Command + C to copy.

Go to the menu File > New from Clipboard. Print that.

Repeat for the lower half of the document.

MtD

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mccarlson Author

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Aug 8, 2021 7:12 PM in response to Meg The Dog

Thanks! I just tried it, and it works fine. But it's going to be a pain in the *** to do it for 40 pages of music!

Finale has a feature called "tiling" that is supposed to do this automatically, but it evidently doesn't work. Darn!

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