1 Reply Latest reply: Jul 5, 2010 2:20 PM by Tai Lao RSS

    Preview the print size by option-clicking at the bottom of the document window

    vco_se11 Community Member

      I have just upgraded from CS3 to CS5 and I'm finding a few surprises.

       

      You used to be able to option-click on the little bar at the bottom of each document window (where the document file size is displayed) to bring up a thumbnail of the image as it would print at its current resolution on the currently selected page size Page Setup. It showed a white box representing the page, with a black rectangle outline (with diagonal lines corner to corner, like an x) to indicate how big the image was on that page size.

       

      I'm not sure what to call this feature, or what to even call the box where you option-clicked (its' the box which can be set to display file size, scratch disks, efficiency, etc), so I'm having trouble looking up how to do it in CS5, where it seems to have disappeared.

       

      I found this feature very useful for quickly visualising how images would fit on a page before I place them in InDesign.

       

      If anyone knows how to access this feature in CS5, I would be very grateful indeed.

       

      many thanks in advance