Prevent Adobe Reader to show PDF while printing with Outlook
Hi
I want to know if there is a way to prevent Adobe Reader from showing the PDF while quick print from Outlook? A friend need to print many PDF from email and have to wait 5-10 secondes between each print. He want to click on email, and quick print the attach PDF and goes to next and print next PDF and so on. It is not productive for him to wait each time about Reader to show the PDF and minimize after each time. Sometime he have up to 100 PDF to print in a batch.
I checked all parameter in Adobe Reader and found nothing that could help. I tested in Windows with PDF, DOCX and XLSX and it had that same behavior. I think this behavior come from Windows.
Is there a way to tell Windows, Outlook, or Adobe Reader to keep Adobe Reader minimized or hide while printing from Outlook or Windows?
Thank you!
Dan
I want to know if there is a way to prevent Adobe Reader from showing the PDF while quick print from Outlook? A friend need to print many PDF from email and have to wait 5-10 secondes between each print. He want to click on email, and quick print the attach PDF and goes to next and print next PDF and so on. It is not productive for him to wait each time about Reader to show the PDF and minimize after each time. Sometime he have up to 100 PDF to print in a batch.
I checked all parameter in Adobe Reader and found nothing that could help. I tested in Windows with PDF, DOCX and XLSX and it had that same behavior. I think this behavior come from Windows.
Is there a way to tell Windows, Outlook, or Adobe Reader to keep Adobe Reader minimized or hide while printing from Outlook or Windows?
Thank you!
Dan
- In the message list, click the message that has attachments that you want to print.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Print.
- Under Printer, click Print Options.
- In the Print dialog box, under Print Options, select the Print attached files uncheck box.
ASKER
John: that not that much productive
Hani: We want to print PDF, but with quick print on attachment we don't want to see the PDF while Adobe Reader is printing it.
Hani: We want to print PDF, but with quick print on attachment we don't want to see the PDF while Adobe Reader is printing it.
You can save all (1 minute) and Print All (not one at a time), so it should be much faster than one at a time.
- In the message list, click the message that has attachments that you want to print.
- Click the File tab.
- Click Print.
- Under Printer, click Print Options.
- In the Print dialog box, under Print Options, select the Print attached files
- check/uncheck box
- .
ASKER
John: The problem is that each PDF are in different message (1 PDF per message) so I have to save them one a time. But after, we still have to wait after Adobe Reader while printing, so 100 X 5-10 seconds.
Hani: Still have the Adobe Reader windows showing
Hani: Still have the Adobe Reader windows showing
Thanks for the first item - that was not completely clear to me. So yes, saving from multiple emails to a temp folder will not be fast.
you need to make Silent / Background Printing
ASKER
Hani: yes, but how to do it? Adobe reader doesn't seem to be able to do it.
Save all to Folder , then :
1.
Press "Win-E" to open Windows Explorer and locate the PDF files you want to print.
2.
Click and drag the PDF files into the same folder. Alternatively, click the uppermost folder and enter "type:pdf" without quotes in the Windows Explorer search bar. Doing so brings up a list of all PDF files in that folder and any sub-folders.
3.
Hold the "Ctrl" key and click up to 15 PDF files to select them.
4.
Right-click any selected PDF file and click "Print" to automatically print all of the selected files. If you need to print more than 15 PDFs, repeat the procedure and select the unprinted PDFs.
1.
Press "Win-E" to open Windows Explorer and locate the PDF files you want to print.
2.
Click and drag the PDF files into the same folder. Alternatively, click the uppermost folder and enter "type:pdf" without quotes in the Windows Explorer search bar. Doing so brings up a list of all PDF files in that folder and any sub-folders.
3.
Hold the "Ctrl" key and click up to 15 PDF files to select them.
4.
Right-click any selected PDF file and click "Print" to automatically print all of the selected files. If you need to print more than 15 PDFs, repeat the procedure and select the unprinted PDFs.
ASKER
Hani : like I said to John I received them by email and 1 PDF per email. So it will be so long to save them all. But after If I print them Adobe Reader will not print silent or in background so it will nearly blocked the computer for 100 X 5-10 seconds.
Ok, silly idea but I wonder if this will work: Launch Adobe Reader and then minimize it. When you print, does it stay minimized?
The only way I know to force a program to open minimized is to create a shortcut to the application, right click the shortcut, and tell the shortcut to run the program minimized. But I think this only works if the program is run from that shortcut.
So, do this:
1). Create an Adobe Reader shortcut.
2). Right click the shortcut, select properties.
3). In the Run pop-up, tell it to run minimized.
4). Launch Adobe Reader using that shortcut.
5). Now Adobe Reader is running minimized.
6). Now try to print from Outlook and see if a window pops up.
I am not sure this will work, but worth a try.
The only way I know to force a program to open minimized is to create a shortcut to the application, right click the shortcut, and tell the shortcut to run the program minimized. But I think this only works if the program is run from that shortcut.
So, do this:
1). Create an Adobe Reader shortcut.
2). Right click the shortcut, select properties.
3). In the Run pop-up, tell it to run minimized.
4). Launch Adobe Reader using that shortcut.
5). Now Adobe Reader is running minimized.
6). Now try to print from Outlook and see if a window pops up.
I am not sure this will work, but worth a try.
ASKER
Owen: no it still show the windows
ASKER
Oddly I installed Foxit PDF Reader but I left Adobe Reader as default PDF reader. After that, while I print PDF from Outlook or Windows Explorer, it print with Adobe Reader minimized and it never show the PDF. So Foxit PDF reader probably modified a key in registry somewhere. In the best case, I need this modification to apply it on the computer that I need it. But now I will try to install Foxit PDF Reader on this computer and see if it will do the same thing. I let you know.
If somebody know which registry key it modify please tell me.
Dany
If somebody know which registry key it modify please tell me.
Dany
Owen: no it still show the windows
Sigh. I was hoping that if Adobe Reader was launched already in minimized mode, it would stay there. Sorry that did not work. It was worth a try.
There is an article here on EE that explains how to set an application to always start minimized:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27895796/force-a-program-to-start-mimimized-in-registry.html
I think this might help.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27895796/force-a-program-to-start-mimimized-in-registry.html
I think this might help.
ASKER
Owen : I don't wan't it always start minimized, only when it print a PDF. And if the first start minimized the others will show the windows probably if I don't stop Adobe Reader app.
Hi Zacker. Yea, sorry, I thought if it started out minimized all new windows would be minimized as well. And remember, you can always expand any minimized window at any time. Best I can find here. They MAY be a registry entry for mail that tells mail how to launch Adobe Reader, and if so, you can edit that like in the article above to luck minimized only from mail. But since I do not have your system no way to look at the email register settings.
ASKER
Owen: The registry key is from Windows printing for PDF document but I didn't find it. Outlook seem to use the same system as Explorer to quick print a document. Since I installed Foxit pdf reader, Windows Explorer doesn't show pdf document while printing with contextual menu.
I was hoping it was an Outlook choice, but obviously not. Sorry. Kind of shooting the dark.
ASKER
I found the key for the print PDF but the commande and option are the same before and after installation of FoxIt PDF Reader. So the setting is in another key.
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Save all the attachments to a temporary folder (you can save multiple attachments at once).
Then using Windows Explorer, select all the files above, right click and select Print.