Print Preview in Google Docs

Google’s PDF viewer has many practical uses: you can view the PDF files uploaded to Google Docs, view your Gmail attachments (and not just PDF files). The same viewer is now used to implement “print preview” in Google Docs, a feature available in the File menu.

Use “print preview” before printing a document or just to find the number of pages in your document.

The feature also works for presentations, but it’s not yet available from the interface. You will need to manually create the URL:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=writely&srcid=DOCUMENT_ID

where DOCUMENT_ID is the ID of the document or presentation (you can obtain it from the docid parameter).