Command+` shortcut with Preview

The Command+` keyboard shortcut to alternate between open windows doesn't work with Preview. I does work with every other software, but not Preview.
Am I doing somethig wrong? Is there a way to make it work?

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I had a similar probem after updating to the newest Safari -- and I posted that question on the forum this morning. Like you, I didn't have any adobe plug-ins. then I read another post that made sense:
find a pdf document that you know opens in Preview. Do a command-I on that document's icon. Then you'll see 1/2 way down an item that says "open with Preview" - click on the arrow beside that, then beside it you'll see "use this application to open all documents like this one" Under that, you'll see "change all" -- and it will change all pdfs to automatically open with Preview instead of Adobe.From then on Safari worked perfectly
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this is a relatively new issue that popped up sometime in the last month or so. when i try to print any pdf document with adobe reader, to my HP laserjet P1505, i get the following error:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
if i open up the same document with preview, it prints fine. i updated my printer software, and reinstalled adobe reader with no change. what gives?

here's what popped up in that log just now when the print failed:
thanks for looking at this!
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] argv[6]="/private/var/spool/cups/d00215-001"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[1]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/cache"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[3]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[4]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[5]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/private/var/spool/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[8]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/private/etc/cups"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[9]="HOME=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[10]="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[11]="[email protected]"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[12]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.4"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[13]="TMPDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[14]="USER=root"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=/private/var/run/cupsd"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[16]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[17]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[18]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[19]="LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[20]="APPLE_LANGUAGE=en-US"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[21]="PPD=/private/etc/cups/ppd/HPLaserJetP1505.ppd"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[22]="RIPMAXCACHE=8m"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[23]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[24]="DEVICE_URI=usb://Hewlett-Packard/HP%20LaserJet%20P1505?serial=CA4467F "
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[25]="PRINTER_INFO=HP LaserJet P1505"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[26]="PRINTER_LOCATION=MOS525macSobeck"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[27]="PRINTER=HPLaserJetP1505"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[28]="CUPS_FILETYPE=document"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] envp[29]="FINALCONTENT_TYPE=printer/HP_LaserJetP1505"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 99017)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 99018)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Started filter /Library/Printers/hp/laserjet/hplaserjetzjs.bundle/Contents/MacOS/rasterToHPZJS (PID 99019)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 99020)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Starting ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Running /usr/local/bin/gs -dQUIET -dDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c -
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster: line 58: /usr/local/bin/gs: No such file or directory
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Page = 612x792; 18,14 to 594,778
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] slow_collate=0, slow_duplex=0, slow_order=0
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Before copy_comments - %!PS-Adobe-3.1
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %!PS-Adobe-3.1
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %ADODSCEncoding: MacOS Roman
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%Title: 125vocab2.pdf
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%Creator: Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%For: osu
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%CreationDate: 9/10/10, 8:37 AM
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%BoundingBox: 22 40 590 774
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%HiResBoundingBox: 22.4091 40 589.5909 774
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%CropBox: 22.4091 40 589.5909 774
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%LanguageLevel: 2
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentNeededResources: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentNeededFeatures: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentSuppliedFeatures: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentData: Binary
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%PageOrder: Ascend
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%Pages: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%DocumentCustomColors: (atend)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] %%EndComments
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Before copy_prolog - %%BeginDefaults
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] usb: AppleLanguages="en-US"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] STATE: +connecting-to-device
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Looking for 'Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet P1505'
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] load_classdriver(/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/USBGenericTOPrintingClass.p lugin) (kr:0x00000000)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Opening connection
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] load_classdriver(/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/USBGenericTOPrintingClass.p lugin) (kr:0x00000000)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] STATE: -connecting-to-device
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Sending print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Read 59 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] CUPSSC_CMD_DRAINOUTPUT received from driver...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Wrote 59 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Read 16 bytes of back-channel data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Using unbuffered writes.
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Executing Shutdown().
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] CommandInterface does not exist.
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Releasing the Command Interface.
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Entering ProcessStatusMessages(60.000000)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] About to read CUPS back channel...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Read 319 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] CUPSSC_CMD_DRAINOUTPUT received from driver...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Wrote 319 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Got USB transaction timeout during read
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] ...back channel read returned; -1 bytes returned.
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Exiting ProcessStatusMessages
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Entering ProcessStatusMessages(1.000000)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] About to read CUPS back channel...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Read 18 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Wrote 18 bytes of print data...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] ...back channel read returned; -1 bytes returned.
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Exiting ProcessStatusMessages
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Sent 396 bytes...
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] Got USB transaction timeout during read
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] End of messages
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] printer-state=3(idle)
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] printer-state-message="No pages found!"
D [10/Sep/2010:08:38:48 -0400] [Job 215] printer-state-reasons=none

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A few months ago, i have extracted details of an pdf-document with the following workflow: selecting an area with the mouse, apple-c (for copy), apple-n (new document of the between file). Then preview opend a new pdf-document with the selected details.
Now, a few months later, preview opens with the whole content of the page, where the selection happens.
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Achim

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This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
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Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
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Utilities ▹ Terminal
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In the Terminal window, type this:
res
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resetpassword
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I recently noticed a strange behaviour iPhoto 8 has with previews: In some of my event categories, iPhoto does not display the correct preview thumbnail of the picture, but a preview thumbnail of another event. When I click on the thumbnail, it reloads the appropriate preview and it does not happen again - with that picture. Also, if I double click an event to open it, the small thumbnail of the event's key photo that is to be displayed in the title bar (next to the All Events button) is not always correct.
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I would run the combo updater, It's a quick easy option
If that fails, do the following steps to reset Your files permissions.
Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
In the menu bar, select Utilities -> Terminal. Type resetpassword in the Terminal and press Enter.
1 Select your main hard drive.
2 In the dropdown box under "Select the user account" make sure to select your username.
3 Select the option: "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs", click the Reset button. It's not obvious when it's complete.
4 Quit the Reset Password application.
5 Quit the Terminal.
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I recommend doing Repair Disk to verify the health of your drive. You can Repair Permissions while booted from your drive, but you can't Repair Disk unless you boot from recover or another drive.
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Trouble with Preview/Adobe: corrupt Finder cache???

hello!!
I posted this question in the Appleworks forum, and later under Finder and Dock Forum here. I thought that the issue was resolved, but this is not so.
here is the problem.
I prefer Acrobat to Preview, to work on PDF documents. Therefore, I have, on multiple occassions, selected the PDF documents, and "open with" Adobe Acrobat" and "Change ALL".
However, almost every time (but not ALL the time) I log out and come back, the default changes to the Preview. As good as Preview is, the idea that my MacBook Pro is misbehaving is annoying.
Then I did the following.
1. Select on the file such as pdf.
2. Right click and select the command Open with.
3. To change the default application. Select Other...
4. Then select the Adobe application and check the Always open with button.
Even this did not solve the problem. When I log back in, the default application for PDF had changed to Preview Not always however)
Then I was told that I may have a corrupt Finder cache and that I ought to address my question here.
At this point, I was told:
Try using a utility called Yasu to fix the problem. You can download Yasu at http://jimmitchell.org/projects/yasu/
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I have NOt done anything unusual with my MBP. In fact, last night, a pdf document was opened with Adobe. And then I restarted the MBP now, and, it is all back to Preview.
What ought I do?
Thanks!
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM

Chris:
Sorry! I was away.
Well. i am using Adobe Acrobat 7 pofessional. It had worked fine in my previous MBP that got stolen.
As I said, after having done everything that youhad suggested I failed to get the default on Acrobat, by clicking on the application in the get info panel. The only way to change that was to select change all.
Then I logged out, shut down, and restarted today. Same story. My Pdf defaulthad changed to Preview. In addition, I noted that some of the .doc files are now meing opened with textedit, instead of Word. Even the Word icon had disappeared, but this seem tohave affected only some doc files and notall.
I am clueless as to what to do now!!!
any moer ideas short of reinstalling?
Thanks by the way. You ahev been very kind and helpful in this matter.
/PH
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB RAM

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Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
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Choose the version you have installed now:
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OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
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Occasionally I get this message when trying to open a PDF file in an email attachment:
"it may be damaged or use a file format that preview doesn't recognise"
However, when I open the same attachment on my iPad, using GoodReader it does open, so the file is not damaged.
The issue seems to be with Preview and started recently (after new Mac updates maybe).
I don't want to post the PDF file here since it's company property.
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Back up all data.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags nouchg,nouappnd,noschg,nosappnd {} + -exec chown $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -N {} + -type d -exec chmod +x {} + 2>&-
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

What do you do when photos appear on iPhoto fine with preview, but show up back with an explanation point when selected?

What do you do when photos appear on iPhoto fine with preview, but show up back with an explanation point when selected?

The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
What version of iPhoto? Assuming 09 or later...
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

Spinning ball with Preview in Yosemite

Every since update to 10.10.1 when try to open picture (.png or .jpg) with preview app, get spinning ball and never opens.

Do a backup.
Quit Preview.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Remove the following. You may not find them all.
Containers/com.apple.Preview
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState
Credit Linc Davis for this solution.

Where is print with preview in cs5?

Hey guys!
I have a huge problem. I run a small screenprinting company
We just upgraded from CS to CS5.
We use photoshop to via channels seperate CMYK pictures for imprint on clothes etc.
In the old "print with preview" dialog box there was a choice where you could change the screen angles and lpi to get different raster when you make film positives. This choice is not available any more but is a very important feature that I need badly to be able to use photoshop.
Is there another way to do this?
Please respond quickly
Thank you
B rgds

So here's the printing engineer.
The reason "Screen" was removed was that it was using PostScript Level I screen commands which did not work correctly on many Level 2 and Level 3 printers. And on most RIPs / PostScript printers, there is a way to set the default screen angles and frequencies. We didn't have the time to fix the problem correctly, so after some discussion, we decided to remove it and add it to our feature list for the future, making sure to do it in a way that's compatible with newer printers, while maintaining compatibility with the old, too.
The good news is that it's not entirely removed. If the screen settings were working for you in an early version of Photoshop, and you save a document with those screen settings from that earlier version, you can print that document from Photoshop CS5 (to a PostScript printer) and the settings that are saved in the document will be used. If you change anything in the "Output" portion of the Photoshop print dialog, they'll likely be clobbered, but if you don't, they seem to work correctly (it's hard for me to say with 100% certainty, as I don't have a printer available which actually uses the old screen commands, so I'm stuck reading the PostScript, but the commands are in there with an old document that I saved from CS3, and it appears there were no changes to the output settings between CS and CS3).
So what you can do is make a document with Photoshop CS with the correct screen settings in it, then open that document in CS5, paste in new content, and Save As... a new file (so you don't clobber the document you created), you should be able to make any number of new documents in CS5 which will screen the way you want. You will also need to go into "Print Settings" to get the page setup correctly, but you could also save that information into the file you re-use so you don't have to do it every time.
I know it's not a perfect solution, and it's pretty clunky. Sorry about that. I'm hoping to get time to add back the screen functionality in a way that will work with today's printers.

Command+` shortcut with Preview

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