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OK.. this is a totally new one on me...
One of the teachers here brought me a PDF document... 60 pages long. The first three pages are roman numeraled introduction pages.
THey do NOT print when specifying "All" pages be printed, and they are NOT printed when you select "page 1 to 3"... the first 3 pages of the document that are numbered 1 to 3 are printed. These pages that preceed those don't.
The user tried putting "i to iii" in the print dialog, and naturally, that don't work...
I'm stumped... I tried looking through all the prefs and settings I could find in Acrobat Reader... and don't have Acrobat Pro on this machine.
Anyone have a simillar situation?
Fortunately, THIS document isn't really that important to print.. but I'd like to be forarmed if another document we NEED to print that pages from comes up!
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I have run into PDF's like you describe and had the i-iii type pages print at the end when "All" was selected instead of the beginning, but you tried that already. You have me stumped. Was the PDF created using Adobe software, or one of the many PDF creators besides their's?
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Only clue is in the Document settings/information... it says "QuarkXpress"... so I'm guessing it may not have been created with Acrobat Pro.
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Logical Page Numbering
Open your PDF in Acrobat and go to page 1. If your PDF doesn’t have logical page numbering, Acrobat thinks its first page is “page 1.” Yet your document’s “page 1” might actually fall on Acrobat’s page 6, as shown in Figure 5-10. Imagine your readers trying to make sense of this, especially when your document refers them to page 52 or when they Synchronize your document’s page numbering with Acrobat/Reader by adding logical page numbers to your PDF. In Acrobat 6, select the Pages navigation tab (View > Navigation Tabs > Pages), click Options, and select Number Pages... from the drop-down menu. In Acrobat 5, access the Page Numbering dialog box by selecting Document > Number Pages....
Start from the beginning of your document and work to the end, to minimize confusion. If numbering gets tangled up, reset the page numbers by selecting All Pages, Begin New Section, Style: 1, 2, 3, ..., Prefix: (blank), Start: 1, and clicking OK.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/acrobat_reso...le_062.php
I would think that for printing purposes you could number i-iii "61-63" rather than renumbering the entire document
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Have you tried printing in Preview?
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You may be able to specify printing pages -2 to 0 in the print dialog.
You can do this in PowerPoint.
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I'm not 100% sure if this works with Acrobat, but try printing pages "+1 - +3", which are absolute page numbers, rather than designations - it works in page layout apps.
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chas;
Yup.. same problem... (!)
Marc;
I'll give it a shot!
All;
Thanks!
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In Preview you can Export the pages to multipage TIFF (or whatever). Then print the exported file. You should be able to print out the selected pages from the new document.
It might even work to export it to PDF. Without a similarly misbehaving document, I can't test out to see if it would strip off the problematic structures.
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Can you make two separate printings and send the "i, ii, iii" pages through first?
