Tweaking Acrobat PDF Adobe Reader
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http://live.pirillo.com/ - Almost every computer has a .pdf reader on them these days. Lately I’ve been having trouble with Adobe Reader not printing my .pdf documents properly, and I had to do a lot of investigating as to how to fix it.
Three of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, and Wirelesspacket.
Every time I would try to print a PDF document, the text would come out all gobbledy looking. Nothing would line up where it should, and it was just a bunch of garbage. I wasted a lot of time and paper before finally finding the answer. In Adobe Reader, go to the print dialogue, and click the Advanced button. Once there, put a check mark into the box next to where it says print as image. This will make all your text and everything print onto paper exactly as it appears on the screen.
Another good PDF reader is the free Foxit reader. It’s a viewer and printer for PDF’s, very small in file size, and works faster than the Adobe counterpart.
You can find a huge list of different types of PDF reader and converting programs on Wikipedia. Here you’ll see everything from open source, to Proprietary programs. There are recommendations for absolutely every platform you might be running on your computer, as well.
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John Neilson
October 9th, 2007
at 2:01am
I had the same problems trying to print from Foxit - gobblededook. Acrobat 7 is much faster to load web page files than earlier versions, but of course you can’t edit them.
Jack Bremer - 3B Web Design, London UK
October 9th, 2007
at 4:23am
I’ve not had the same problems, Chris, but I often recommend CutePDF to clients - it’s free!
If you take a look inside Acrobat’s (I don’t use Reader, but the full blown version instead) you can tweak a few performance settings too.
Yesterday Acrobat was crashing, and I needed to get into a PDF quickly, so I just opened it in Photoshop instead - a useful trick when needed!
CutePDF Free: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
Scott Salberg
October 9th, 2007
at 8:43am
Wow! Thanks for the FoxIt reader link. SOOO much faster than Adobe!!
You’ve made my day with this one!
Your Support Website
October 9th, 2007
at 2:51pm
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Zach S
October 10th, 2007
at 12:03pm
Speaking of tweaking Acrobat: how can I change the default mail application that is launched by the ‘Email’ button in the Acrobat plugin?
I am using Mozilla FireFox, and although the Acrobat Reader (8) is loaded as a plug-in, the ‘Internet’ tab under Acrobat display settings launches the Internet Explorer 7 settings!
I would assume then, that Acrobat is ‘crappily’ not looking at the default program settings in windows but referencing the some registry entry or something?
Any advice on how to point my ‘Email’ button to Thunderbird, for example, rather than Outlook?
Windows Vista Torrent
October 10th, 2007
at 1:08pm
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