CorelDRAW Help | Preview print jobs

Preview print jobs

To view a summary of issues for a print job

You can preview your work to show how the position and size of the print job will appear on paper. For a detailed view, you can zoom in on an area. You can view how the individual color separations will appear when printed.

Before printing your work, you can view a summary of issues for a print job to find potential printing problems. For example, you can check the current print job for print errors, possible print problems, and suggestions for resolving issues.

To preview a print job

• Click File

Print Preview.

To close the print preview, click File

Close print preview.

You can quickly preview a print job in the Print dialog box by clicking File Print and clicking the Mini preview button .

To magnify the preview page

1 Click File

Print Preview.

2 Click the Zoom tool

in the toolbox and marquee selecting an area.

To preview color separations

1 Click File

Print Preview.

2 On the property bar, click the Enable color separations button

You can preview the composite by clicking View Preview separations Composite.

You can view individual color separations by clicking the tabs at the bottom of the application window.

To view a summary of issues for a print job

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the Preflight tab.

If there are no print job issues, the tab name displays as No issues. If there are issues, the tab name displays the number of issues that were found.

If you want to exclude certain issues from the preflight check, click the Settings button

, double-click Printing, and disable any check boxes that correspond to issues you want overlooked.

You can save settings by clicking the Add preflight settings button and typing a name in the Save preflight style as box.