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How do I have Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard set the " Choose Paper Source by PDF page size " to checked by default.

Asked by: lmerrill

I am trying to distribute an Excel spreadsheet that needs a 11 by  14 to over a hundred people and do not have time to have them change their settings individually is their a way to do it in VB or on the distiller or the server printer?

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2007-05-15 at 07:50:31ID22573170
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Answers

 

by: nike_golfPosted on 2007-05-15 at 08:02:10ID: 19093348

Can't you set that in Distiller under Settings/Job Options/General? Change the units to inches, set the paper size to 11x14 then save the Job.

NG,

 

by: lmerrillPosted on 2007-05-15 at 08:17:33ID: 19093501

I am looking to set the default option "choose paper source by PDF page size" otherwise the PDF  local Printer set it back to letter.

 

by: nike_golfPosted on 2007-05-17 at 06:05:57ID: 19107814

Exactly what is not happening with the users? I think that if you distill the project in an 11x14 format and distribute it when the user opens the document it should retain that format.

NG,

 

by: FunkmotorPosted on 2007-05-18 at 05:11:35ID: 19114841

Okay, I'm not 100% this is the same in Standard as in Pro, but here goes.

1. Open your document, then go to the File menu and choose Properties.  (Or just hit Ctrl+D)
2. Go to the Advanced tab.
3. Look for a checkbox about 1/2 way down that says "Paper Source by Page Size".  Tick that.
4. Maybe check other options on that tab, as some might interest you...like switching off page scaling.
5. Save the document, and the setting should stick.

I believe you will need to do this for every document that needs this treatment.  Adobe do offer automated ways of doing this, but unless you have thousands of files they probably would not be worth the cost.

I hope that helps.

 

by: lmerrillPosted on 2007-05-18 at 06:59:10ID: 19115609

I know how to this. Is there a way to set the property in VB?

 

by: FunkmotorPosted on 2007-05-18 at 16:35:45ID: 19119030

Not that I'm aware of.  Acrobat doesn't expose its own user interface.

Sorry, I thought it was a good answer.  It will set the property on the document so that anyone opening it will have that option set by default.

If you want an automated way to do it, then look at Adobe LiveCycle Assembler.  I believe it should be able to do it.

 

by: nike_golfPosted on 2007-07-03 at 13:33:01ID: 19414535

Were you able to find the answer to your question?

NG,

 

by: Computer101Posted on 2007-10-28 at 18:42:57ID: 20167179

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