Print selected text on Mac

Ever since switching to Mac, the one thing that bothered me the most was the absence of the ‘print selection’ option in the print dialog box in Mac OS X . So every-time I want to print only the highlighted text from Safari or Mail.app, I simply cannot unless of-course I copy paste the selected text into some text editor and then print the whole damn thing. Aghhhh..painful

At first I really thought I was probably missing something. How can Apple forget to put that option up there, especially when Windows has had that option for ever? But unfortunatley, it turns out, there really is no built-in way to print selected text from an application on Mac OS X. So I set out to find a solution to this found it in this script.

It lets you select text and graphics in any cocoa application (safari, mail.app, etc.), go to the services menu and go to “Print Selection” and the selected stuff will be printed.

Hope Apple fixes that in the much awaited ‘Leopard’ though!