How can I select specific pages of a document that I have in PAGES?

Hi Jamie,

More a System question than a Pages one, as the Print dialogue parameters apply to all applications using them.

You can Print All pages or a Range of pages. The range can be set to any number of pages by specifying the first and last page of the range.

You can also specify that only the right or only the left pages within the limits set above be printed.

You cannot specify a list of individual pages to be printed.

To print pages 2, 4 and 7 from a document will require at least two visits to the Print dialogue:

Print>From 7 to 7

Print>From 2 to 4>(from Pop-Up menu) Paper Handling > Pages to Print > Even only

OR

Print>From 2 to 2

Print>From 4 to 4

Print>From 7 to 7

For this case, the three-visit routine is easier:

command-P,tab,2,tab,return

command-P,tab,4,tab,return

command-P,tab,7,tab,return

Regards,

Barry

You just need to use an application that does not use the Apple System Print services panel. Enter Adobe Acrobat Reader. Export your Pages document to PDF, and then open it in Reader. On the print panel, you switch from All to Pages, where you can enter comma and hyphen separated page values as shown in the screen capture below. I tested this on a 194 page document and only the specified pages printed.

Open a Finder window, and in the left FAVORITES panel, click Applications. Look for either of the Adobe icons shown below.

If you have one of these, launch it, and click on the Help menu to check for updates. You want to keep it updated. If you have neither, then you will have to download and install it from the official Adobe site. The default PDF reader will remain Preview. The Export to PDF option in Pages gets you to a PDF. Right-click on that PDF, and from the pop-up menu, choose Open with Acrobat Reader. There are two Reader icons that represent the new (DC) reader, and the older version.

You cannot suppress the printing of images in a PDF — not in Preview, nor Adobe Acrobat Reader. PDFs are in a final format, and only PDF Editors can revise the content. Pages is not a PDF editor, though you can drag/drop a PDF page onto it and use it like a scalable image object.

If you are on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.5 or later), and have the free LibreOffice, you can open a PDF (launch LibreOffice and use the Open… menu item) with your pictures in it. If it is a multi-page PDF, then in the LibreOffice View menu, select Page Pane, to enable thumbnails. Click on each picture to select it, and press delete. Your document formatting does not change, but will just have holes where the pictures were located. Don't save it, but instead, export as PDF (use a different name for the new PDF). Now, you can print the resultant PDF without pictures.

Once you click the LibreOffice download button, it will switch to a donation page. Just drum your fingers for a couple seconds, and it will then start the download without a donation. Inside the LibreOffice installer, just drag it onto the Applications folder alias included in the installer. This will install everything beneath one icon in your Applications folder. Right-click on the LibreOffice icon, and choose Open. At the pop-up, choose open again. You only need to do this once. Afterwards, LibreOffice will launch with a double-click, and it is also in your Launchpad items.

Hi Rebekkah,

Paragraph indents (and hanging indents) can be set in the Ruler, or in the format inspector. The examples below are in Pages '09, so appearance will differ from what you see in Pages 5.

Start by Showing the Ruler(s) (View menu), then clicking in the paragraph for which you want to seta hanging indent. (To apply the setting to more than one contiguous paragraph, select a block of text starting in the first paragraph and extending to the last paragraph to be formatted.)

In the Ruler,you will see the left margin stop (triangle) and the indent stop (rectangle) one atop the other above the left edge of the text below.

Click on the triangle and drag to the right. This will move both stops, and the whole left margin of the paragraph to follow the stops.

Now click on and drag the indent stop (rectangle) left to its original location. The stop and the first line of the paragraph will move left.

These settings will apply to the paragraphs holding selected text. Any paragraph added immediately after the last formatted paragraph will also inherit the setting.

Regards,

Barry

PS: As this is a quite different question from the one in the subject line of this discussion, it would be better posted as a New Topic. Having it's own subject line/question makes it easier for others with the same question to find this one, and makes it possible to mark this one as Answered, again easing the task for a later user searching for an answer to the same question.

B.

HI Jamie,

It doesn't appear to be a highly desired feature (or one that is much missed by those arriving after many years of Windows experience) if frequency of the question arising in this forum (Pages) is anything to go by.

But if you think it's a feature that should be default on the Mac, tell Apple. Here you're speaking to users of the products, not developers.

Launch Pages

Go Pages (menu) > Provide Pages Feedback

Make a feature request

Tell why it would be useful.

Send.

Apple does read Feedback submissions, but you'll not get a direct response unless it's to ask for more details to support the proposal.

Regards,

Barry

Here's another option that I have been using. I do a copy and paste of the pages I want to print. Then I print the new document I have created that contains only the pages I want to print. In my humble opinion, this is a quick and rather painless to me option. I don't have to fool the printer into printing one page at a time, and I can print double sided copies if that works for me at the time. Since I'm all about saving paper, I like taking advantage of the double sided option.

Best of luck. Hope this helps a bit. RRR

Can you tell me more about "entering Adobe"? How does one do that? I knew where to find Adobe Reader on my Dell, but I don't know if I even have Adobe on my new iMac 21.5. Where do I look for Adobe Acrobat Reader on my new iMac? I see the export to pdf option in Pages. How would I open it in Reader?

In addition - I have several pdf files that I would like to print out, but they contain pictures I don't want to print. Is there a way I can edit the pages of a pdf? I tried copying and pasting into a Pages document. That didn't work. Totally messed up the information, and didn't copy it appropriately.

Feel Free to Ignore me if you are too busy to help me out.

Regards, RRR

Hi Rebekkah,

"Enter Adobe Acrobat Reader" should be read as a stage direction (eg. "Enter Hamlet stage left, bearing a skull").

To open a pdf file in Adobe Reader instead of the default application for this file type (Preview), right click on the file's icon in Finder, then choose Open with > Adobe Reader from the menu that pops up.

If you don't see Adobe Reader in the list, it means you have not installed that application on you Mac. You can get it from adobe.com. Reader is free, and has limited editing capabilities. Adobe also makes PDF authoring applications, for which there is a fee.

Regards,

Barry

I requested your post be moved to:

Pages for Mac

Nothing that is it.

All or a range.

Menu > Pages > Provide Pages Feedback

Peter

Yes, it is unfortunate, but I suspect things will ice over in hades before Apple revises their Print panel. At the end of the day, it is about adapting to the tools that get the job done.