Easy way to add Print Setup button to Acrobat 8.0's toolbar?
December 16, 2008 2:49 PM Subscribe
Is there an easy way to add a Print Setup button to Acrobat 8.0's toolbar that is accessible inside a browser window? Full story inside.
I work a lot, but not exclusively, with large engineering drawings in pdf that are usually 11x17 or larger, and for quick reviewing we tend to print them out as 11x17 on the Xerox printer.
We use to be able to accomplish this pretty simply in the Acrobat Print dialog by choosing the printer properties -> paper size = 11x17. Some time ago something changed (printer firmware?) that doesn't do this smoothly anymore. No combination of fit to paper, rotate and center, choose paper source, etc. seems to get the danged thing to print 11x17.
The workaround now is to first use File -> Print Setup and set Paper Size to 11x17, then print as normal. It's an annoying complication, but it works for PDFs that are opened from Windows (not in browsers). The old way still works on other (HP) printers, but those are way slower and farther away.
My problem is that the Print Setup option is not available when viewing a PDF in a Firefox window. I can still print, but unless I can change the paper size in Print Setup, all I'm doing is printing to 8.5x11.
I'd like to at least be able to create a Print Setup button on the toolbar that persists in browser iterations of Acrobat. If anyone has a sneaky way to use AutoHotKey to set the paper size, I'd take that, too. Or if there is a way to get rid of the initial problem altogether, that's even better!
Please note: because of IT policy restrictions, I am forced to keep Acrobat, and CANNOT switch to FoxIt, etc.
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Firefox 3
Xerox WorkCentre5665 driver ver 5.43.9
Windows XP
I work a lot, but not exclusively, with large engineering drawings in pdf that are usually 11x17 or larger, and for quick reviewing we tend to print them out as 11x17 on the Xerox printer.
We use to be able to accomplish this pretty simply in the Acrobat Print dialog by choosing the printer properties -> paper size = 11x17. Some time ago something changed (printer firmware?) that doesn't do this smoothly anymore. No combination of fit to paper, rotate and center, choose paper source, etc. seems to get the danged thing to print 11x17.
The workaround now is to first use File -> Print Setup and set Paper Size to 11x17, then print as normal. It's an annoying complication, but it works for PDFs that are opened from Windows (not in browsers). The old way still works on other (HP) printers, but those are way slower and farther away.
My problem is that the Print Setup option is not available when viewing a PDF in a Firefox window. I can still print, but unless I can change the paper size in Print Setup, all I'm doing is printing to 8.5x11.
I'd like to at least be able to create a Print Setup button on the toolbar that persists in browser iterations of Acrobat. If anyone has a sneaky way to use AutoHotKey to set the paper size, I'd take that, too. Or if there is a way to get rid of the initial problem altogether, that's even better!
Please note: because of IT policy restrictions, I am forced to keep Acrobat, and CANNOT switch to FoxIt, etc.
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Firefox 3
Xerox WorkCentre5665 driver ver 5.43.9
Windows XP
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Also, I think if you go in your printers folder and open up your printer's settings, you should be able to set the "default" paper size to 11x17. That would probably let you just click the Print button directly.
posted by ssheth at 3:13 PM on December 16, 2008