Adobe Acrobat 7 TIPS and TRICKS THE 100150 BEST [Electronic resources]

Donna L. Baker; Kristin Kalning; Becky Morgan; Judy Ziajka

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  • TIP 46: Choosing Print Settings

    Printing from Acrobat can be much more complex than clicking the Print button: You can control what you print as well as where and how a document is printed. In addition, Acrobat lets you print to a printer or to a file, define a portion of your document for printing, or create a PostScript file.

    Picking Pages

    You can use Acrobat's Pages pane to select portions of a document to print:

    • To select a group of pages, click the first page to select it, hold down the Shift key, and click the last page to select it. Acrobat selects all pages in between as well.

    • To select noncontiguous pages, click the first page to select it, hold down Ctrl/Command, and click the other pages you want to print.

    Choose File > Print to proceed with your print job.

    Choose File > Print to open the Print dialog (Figure 46). Here you can choose specific print characteristics, such as the print range and number of copies. Let's take a look.

    Figure 46. Select print characteristics and options in the Print dialog box.

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    Print What You See

    Suppose you want to print a portion of an image that shows a spectacular palm tree or your dog's face. Resize the program window to show only the content you want to print; use the scroll bars and magnification tools to get the placement correct. Then choose File > Print and click Current View in the Print Range settings of the Print dialog. The area displayed in the program window shows in the Preview area. Choose other print settings, and click OK to print.

    • Choose a printer from the Name list in the Printer list; on Mac OS, choose an option from the Presets pop-up menu. Your operating system's printer and printer driver installations, as well as your network configuration, determine the Presets and Printer lists. In Windows, click Print to file to create a PostScript file.

    • Specify a print range and options such as page scaling and number of copies.

      More Printing Options

      Look for these other settings in the Print dialog:

      • If you are working in Windows, and using a drawing that contains colored lines, such as an engineering drawing, click Print Color As Black to force all nonwhite color to print as black. This allows the lines to be readily visible on a black-and-white printed page.

      • You can quickly change the size of a printed document. Click the Page Scaling pull-down arrow and choose Fit to Paper. Your document is reset at the page size selected in the printer properties.

    • Click the Comments and Forms pull-down arrow and choose the document only (the default setting), the document and comments, or form fields. See Tip 125 in Chapter 15 for more on printing comments.