printing pdf manuals

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Fri Jul 23 12:37:19 2004

I recently got an upgrade for my Laserjet 4+ printer. It included a
duplexer, 64mb ram upgrade, envelope feeder, and extended paper tray. I've
printed off a few manuals on 3 hole punched paper from Al's bitsavers site
and I've been really happy with the setup & results. However I have a
question perhaps some here can answer...

If one has a separate paper tray on their printer for, say... 11x17
(schematics), will adobe pdf reader software print all the pages on regular
paper, and as it's going along, notice which pages in the PDF file are
bigger (11x17, or legal, etc.) and print those pages "in-line" from the
other paper tray?

My thought is... after printing, I could take the stack of printout and fold
in the long schematic pages before dropping it in a binder.

I have no idea if adobe acrobat reader does this "sensing of paper size on
each page" or not. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Lots of the manuals I
want to print have fold-out schematics pages sprinkled throughout normal
8x11. If this cant be done, I was thinking I could print all pages except
the big size ones (by looking at each page :\), then print those separately
but thats a pain and I don't know if I can say to exclude certain pages.

Thanks for any thoughts/advice!

Jay West

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