This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Printing a Document
Visions of the paperless office notwithstanding, PDF is routinely used to distribute printed documents. After you open a PDF file and peruse it on screen, you may want to print it for reading at your leisure.
To print a PDF document
Choose File > Print, or click the Print tool in the File toolbar.
Acrobat will present you with the Print dialog box (Figure 3.11).
Figure 3.11 The Print dialog box lets you choose among a wide range of options. In most cases, the default values work fine.
Choose the options you want.
In most cases, you can accept the default values for these controls. Most of them are at least occasionally important, however, and we'll discuss them next.
Click OK.
Acrobat prints your document.
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Miscellaneous settings
- Print to file (Windows). This is a standard Windows check box that tells Acrobat to send the printer code to a file rather than to the printer. This option is used in professional printing to capture PostScript code for the document.
- Print color as black (Windows). This option converts colors to black. It may be useful if you're printing diagrams with a lot of thin, light-colored lines.
- Printing Tips. If you're connected to the Internet, clicking this button launches your Web browser and takes you to troubleshooting tips in Adobe's Knowledgebase.
TIPS
- Don't ignore the preview picture in the Print dialog box (Figure 3.12). A quick examination of this picture can tell you whether your document is going to print as you expect.
Figure 3.12 The preview picture in the Print dialog box shows you how your printed pages will look. The slider beneath the picture lets you move among the pages.
- The slider control beneath the preview picture in the Print dialog box lets you step through the pages in your document.
- Selecting Collate can significantly slow your printing speed, because Acrobat must resend the printing code for each copy of each page in your document. I suggest you routinely leave it off and collate by hand.
- If the size and position of items on your printed page seem off by a small amount, check to make sure you didn't print the document with Shrink to Fit selected. This option may reduce the size of the page contents by a few percent.
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