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You
can print and view PDF documents from Acrobat Reader.
To print a PDF
document in the Acrobat Reader Program:
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. Then 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.
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 printpages as images if they have too many fonts to print as PostScript®.
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.
Printing PDF
documents from the command line (UNIX)
Besides
printing directly from within Reader by choosing File > Print, you can print PDF files from the command line. The
syntax for printing from the command line is:
acroread -toPostScript
<options> <pdf filename>
Note: If a PDF file has been secured with an Open password or does not allow printing,
you will not be able to print from the command line.
For
example, to print the file sample.pdf to
the default printer, type the following:
% cat sample.pdf |
acroread -toPostScript | lp
You
can use <options> to control your print job from the command line.
Options
available to Reader are the following.
To create a Language Level
1, 2, or 3 file:
-level1 or -level2 or
-level3
Note: -level2 is the default setting.
To print a PDF file to a
differently named PostScript file:
-pairs <pdf filename1> <PostScript filename1> <pdf
filename2> <PostScript filename2> ...
For
example, to print sample.pdf to test.ps, you would use the following
syntax:
acroread -toPostScript
-pairs sample.pdf test.ps
To use the printer’s default
halftone screens instead of custom halftone screens included in the file:
-printerhalftones
To create a binary
PostScript file:
-binary
To download fonts once per
document rather than once per page:
-fast
To print a range of pages:
-start <page number> -end <page number>
To print the document in a
landscape orientation:
-landscape
To reverse the page order of
the output:
-reverse
To output only odd-numbered
pages:
-odd
To output only even-numbered
pages:
-even
To shrink, expand or rotate
a document, as necessary, to fit the page on
which it will be printed:
-shrink
To scale the document:
-scale <scale factor>
To control the page size:
-size <page size>
where
width and height can be numbers or letter, tabloid, ledger,
legal,
executive, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, or wxh (custom paper
size
where w is the integer width in points and h is the integer height in
points).
To turn off the print
annotations feature:
-annotsOff