printing multiple pages

You can do this with a small extra step: in the print dialog, choose "Open in Preview" from the PDF menu at the bottom left:

Then you can select any pages in the sidebar, command-P to print and choose "Selected Pages in Sidebar".

This is a function of the particular word processing application you are using. Pages does not have this function, Word does. If you don't have Word, then the free Office suite LibreOffice has this function, but you'll need to export from Pages to Word, and then open in LibreOffice.

Hannah,

Adobe's free Acrobat Reader DC has the capability for mixed page selection, though at first glance, the boilerplate shows Pages: 1 - 160 in the Reader print dialog for a 160 page PDF. However, one can simply override this boiler plate and enter 1,3,4-6,etc. in this field and those pages will print. Tested.

Other than PDF, you are at the mercy of the vendor that created the application print dialog. If you can get the document into PDF format, you can use the first paragraph approach. A properly configured cups printer via lpadmin and lp commands in the Terminal can also submit mixed individual, and page ranges to the printer if the file is PDF or text.

lp -d myprinter -P 1,3,4-6 -o fit-to-page -o media=letter -o number-up=2 foo.pdf

There is room here for someone to create an Automator Print Plug that receives the page range from the user, and then submits the print job via the lp command-line. Print Plugins are available from the File : Print… : PDF menu, and are selectable menu items.

Not at all. LibreOffice has a proper non-contiguous multiple page printing function so that the closed-source Adobe pdf Reader isn’t needed. As I posted.

If the vendor application's print panel does not offer articulate page selection, then the common denominator is exporting to PDF, and using the choices I mentioned.

Draw v6.0.3 can open PDF documents showing thumbnails. However, non-contiguous print selection in the print dialog is ignored. Tested that this morning.

If it is already a pdf document, you can just use Preview.

I keep the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on my Mac because there are times when Preview cannot handle PDF content properly. I also have LibreOffice 6.0.3 installed. I don't have Word, but I do have multiple Pages applications and documents, and it does not guarantee visual document fidelity when exporting to Word format — so I export to PDF, and use Reader.

The OP's choice of solutions has been shared by us. It is Hannah's determination of how she adapts these ideas to her own workflow.

Officially, LibreOffice Writer v6.0.3 shows support for the iWork '09 document formats for Pages v4, Numbers v2, and Keynote v5. Not every formatting in these documents is supported, and the simpler documents have a better chance.

Unofficially, and prior to LO v6, the Writer application could open simple text content Pages v5/v6 documents, but would inject a new page at every paragraph mark. I just checked with LO v6.0.3, and a Pages 7.0 document containing just multi-page text opened and paginated correctly. It also ignored the sans-serif font used by Pages and applied Liberation Serif instead. Still, this capability is not listed among the Open… All Files menu listing of supported document formats.

Draw v6.0.3 can open PDF documents showing thumbnails. However, non-contiguous print selection in the print dialog is ignored. Tested that this morning.

The OP doesn’t tell us if she’s using Pages or Word, or something else ....😉

Just noticed that LibreOffice 6.0.0.3 will open Pages files directly.....🙂