No "Print Window" option in OSX

[Mr Fisky]

At the top of my list of what I miss in OSX from OS9 is the ability to "Print Window" from any window in the Finder. This was particularly useful for printing out a list of contents for a CD/DVD that you might have just burnt.

Now I have to take a screen grab of the window using shift-apple-4, open this in Photoshop, resize it estimating the right size based on an A4 page, sharpened it and then print it out. Then remember to dump the screen grab into the trash. Very time consuming when you are backing up lots of stuff onto CD.

Any thoughts on how to do this more efficiently?

[johnq]

Originally posted by Mr Fisky
At the top of my list of what I miss in OSX from OS9 is the ability to "Print Window" from any window in the Finder. This was particularly useful for printing out a list of contents for a CD/DVD that you might have just burnt.

Now I have to take a screen grab of the window using shift-apple-4, open this in Photoshop, resize it estimating the right size based on an A4 page, sharpened it and then print it out. Then remember to dump the screen grab into the trash. Very time consuming when you are backing up lots of stuff onto CD.

Any thoughts on how to do this more efficiently?

1. Download, run (and buy, ideally) Pathfinder (www.cocoatech.com).
2. Navigate to folder you want to print.
3. Print it.

Choose "Save As PDF" in the Print dialog ideally. Then you can open it up in Photoshop (turn off anti-aliasing in the import dialog):

http://www.nullface.com/ai/dialog.gif

...and you'll get something like this:

http://www.nullface.com/ai/pathfinder.gif

Reflects your Pathfinder list view settings/fonts etc.

Here, I changed the list view settings a bit:

http://www.nullface.com/ai/pathfinder2.gif

[Hobbes]

Alternately: put your printer in the Dock, and drag the folder whose contents you want to print into your Docked printer. Voila.

Or: select the items in the folder whose contents you want to print in the Finder, then paste into TextEdit. There's your list. Print.

Finally, for more detailed control over what gets printed: Print Window Standard (http://swssoftware.com/products/printwindow/) is freeware; a more advanced version is $15.

[johnq]

Originally posted by Hobbes
Alternately: put your printer in the Dock, and drag the folder whose contents you want to print into your Docked printer. Voila.


Since I don't own a printer, and always "print" to PDF, how would I accomplish that, is it possible, some trick?

[Mr Fisky]

Thanks guys, who'd have thought that there'd be a product dedicated to this very missing feature : Printwindow as per your link.
Cheers.

You'd think it wouldn't be hard to add this into 10.4???

[johnq]

Oh, I forgot:

Pathfinder also has a great "Reports" feature.

File: Reports: Directory Listing

You then get an (editable) document containing 4 sets of listings (you can delete whichever you don't need).

1. Listing with icons and just item names
2. Just item names
3. Unix style path
4. File:// URL-style path

http://www.nullface.com/ai/pathfinder3.gif