Saturday, October 31, 2009

HOW TO PRINT PDF DOCUMENTS

Printing PDF documents

You can print and view PDF documents from Acrobat Reader.
To print a PDF document:

1 Use File > Page Setup to set general printing options. The available options
will vary with different printers and drivers. See your printer driver documentation
for details.

2 Click the Print button , or choose File > Print. Specify the printer, page
range, number of copies, and other options, and click OK. Most of the options
are the same as they are for other applications, but note the following:

 Selected Pages Or Selected Graphic (Windows) or Selected Thumbnails/
Graphic (Mac OS) prints only the pages or page area you selected before
opening the Print dialog box.

 Page From/To prints a range of pages. In Windows and UNIX, if the Use
Logical Page Numbers option is selected in General preferences, you can enterpage-position numbers in parentheses to print those pages. For example, if the
first page of a document is numbered “iii”, you can enter (1) to print that page.

 Annotations prints annotation graphics on the pages. The annotations are
printed as closed, even if they are open on the pages online.

 Fit To Page scales pages up or down (and if necessary rotates them) to fit
the paper size currently installed in your printer. This is not available in most
other applications.

 Print As Image (Windows and UNIX) prints the pages as bitmap images. (In
Mac OS, this is set in the Print Method pop-up menu.) You may want to print
pages as images if they have too many fonts to print as PostScript® or if the
pages use non-embedded Asian fonts not available on your system.

 Print Method, in Windows and UNIX, specifies which level of PostScript to
generate for the pages. Choose the level of PostScript appropriate for your
printer. In Mac OS, this specifies whether to print using PostScript (without
selecting level) or to print pages as bitmap images.

 Force Language Level 3 (Mac OS) prints the pages using LanguageLevel 3
PostScript. Select this option if you’re printing PostScript to a file rather than to
a printer and you want to use LanguageLevel 3 PostScript. (When you send
PDF to a printer, let the printer driver specify what level of PostScript to use.)
This is available only when you choose PostScript in the Print Method pop-up
menu; if you choose PostScript in the menu and do not select this option, Level
2 PostScript is used.

 Download Asian Fonts downloads Asian fonts to a PostScript printer. Select
this option if you want to print a PDF document with Asian fonts but do not
have the fonts installed on the printer and do not have the fonts embedded in
the document. (Embedded fonts are downloaded whether or not this option is
selected.) You can use this option with a PostScript Level 2 or higher printer, or
a Level 1 printer that supports Type 0 font extensions.


Note:
Some fonts cannot be downloaded to a printer, either because the font is
a bitmap or because embedding of the font is restricted in that document. In
these cases, a substitute font is used for printing, and the printed output may
not match the screen display exactly.
If Download Asian Fonts is not selected, the PDF document prints correctly
only if the referenced fonts are installed on the printer. If the fonts are not on
the printer but the printer has similar fonts, the printer substitutes the similar
fonts. If there are no suitable fonts on the printer, Courier is used for the text.
If you have a PostScript Level 1 printer that does not support Type 0 font extensions,
or if Download Asian Fonts does not produce the results you want, print
the PDF document as a bitmap image. Printing a document as an image may
take longer than using a substituted printer font.

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