Printing chapters
The Book palette provides a quick method for printing multiple chapters with the same settings. You can print an entire book or just selected chapters from the Book palette. To print chapters in an open book:
- Make sure the chapters you want to print have a status of Available or Open. You cannot print chapters that are listed as Missing or are currently in use by other users.
- To print the entire book, make sure no chapters are selected. To choose one chapter, click it. To select consecutive chapters, press Shift while you click them. To select nonconsecutive chapters, press Command/Ctrl while you click them.
- Click the Print Chapters button
in the Book palette to display the Print dialog box. - To print all the pages in all the selected chapters, choose All from the Pages drop-down menu.
- Specify other print settings as usual, or choose an option from the Print Style drop-down menu. All the pages or chapters will print with these settings.
- Click OK. QuarkXPress will open all the chapters, print them, and then close each chapter. If a chapter is missing or in use by someone else, then the book will not print.
Note: In fields that require you to enter page numbers (for example, the Print dialog box), you must enter the complete page number, including any prefix, or an absolute page number. An absolute page number is a page’s actual position relative to the first page of a document, regardless of the way in which the document is sectioned. To specify an absolute page number in a dialog box, precede the number you enter with a plus (+) sign. For example, to display the first page in a document, enter “+1.”
Parent topic: Working with books