printing pdf manuals

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Fri Jul 23 12:59:23 2004

>>>>> "Jay" == Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org> writes:

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

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

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

 Jay> I have no idea if adobe acrobat reader does this "sensing of
 Jay> paper size on each page" or not.

Yes, I saw this feature at least in the V6 reader. It's on the print
dialog, something like "select paper based on the page size".

It seemed to work just fine.

   paul
Received on Fri Jul 23 2004 - 12:59:23 BST