Printing a Document

You can bypass the Print Setup dialog and make the same choices in the Print dialog or use the settings you made in the Print Setup dialog box to print your file. Either way, you need to select File > Print to print a file.

To print a PDF document from Adobe Reader:

1.	Open a file in Reader and select File > Print. The Print dialog opens.
2.	At the top of the dialog (Figure 6.3) is the option for choosing a printer. If the target printer is not the one you want to use, click the Name (Windows) or Printer (Macintosh) pull-down menu and select your printer. Figure 6.3. Select your target printer from the Name (Windows) or Printer (Macintosh) pull-down menu.
3.	From the Comments and Forms pull-down menu, make a selection for what to print. You can choose to print a Document, Document and Markups, or Document and Stamps. If you have a document with comment markups and/or stamps, you can choose to print the document with or without the associated markups and stamps. For normal PDF printing without comments and stamps, select Document from the pull-down menu. For more information on comments, see Chapter 11, "Using the Comment Tools." For more information on stamps, see Chapter 12, "Working with Stamp Comments."
4.	Select the Print Range. Click the All button to print all pages in the PDF. If you want to print the current page in view, select Current page. If you want to print a range of pages, click the Pages from button and enter the page range in the from and to text boxes.
5.	Set the scaling. From the Page Scaling pull-down menu select None to print the file at actual size; Fit to Printer Margins to expand the entire page within the margins allowed by your printer; Reduce to Printer Margins to reduce the page size to fit within the printable area; or Multiple pages per sheet to print several pages on one sheet of paper.
6.	Preview the print. A thumbnail image appears in the Preview area of the Print dialog. The preview shows you if any clipping of the page will occur before printing the file.
7.	Click OK to print the document.

How can I preview several pages?

PDF documents can comprise pages of different sizes. For example, you can have a letter page, a tabloid page, and an envelope size page in the same PDF document. If you want to preview the pages in the Print dialog's Preview section (Figure 6.4), drag the slider below the preview area to the right or click to the right of the slider bar. Each time you move the slider or click, the next page appears in the Preview.

Figure 6.4. Use the slider to preview additional pages before printing.