Re: Adobe Reader Print Defaults

I've had the same "feature/bug" experience with Adobe as you have.

You said you've tried "unprintable" characters. How about a period with a
font size of 2? That's pretty danged small that most people would miss it.
Or, how about a blank graphic object? (Are you able to do that from the
source?) Just a few WAGs.

One more: Can you set up a template in Acrobat that you can send output to,
and that might allow you to embed something that does what you need?

No easy answers here!

- Dan

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What I found is that many complain about the auto rotation default.
Since I use various iSeries or Win Server products to generate the
pdf files in various apps & systems, none of which give any control over
the
fine points of defaults for the preferences within a pdf.
Unfortunately Adobe sets the default doc to auto-rotate, and gives no
option in the Adobe product preferences to undo this.
I'm left with making sure every page has something printed near the bottom
to stop the rotation. What su**s is the customer is unhappy
with me over something Adobe does.
I have no control over what the end user or end customer uses to
read the pdfs - we just give them a link to the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
btw-Adobe does not see this as a bug, but people have complained via web
for
years about this. In fact, they see Auto-Rotate on as a "feature"
(since Adobe 6).
For those who use products that don't have this problem, there are things
the products can do in the formatting of the pdf to make sure reports not
rotated.
I tried putting unprintable characters (hex 00) on pages - did nothing.
Trying to convince cust to accept a page# at bottom of each page.
When you go to print the pdf, the print dialog box seems to be only place
to
uncheck "auto-rotate and center".

Jim Franz



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From: "Dan" <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Adobe Reader Print Defaults

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Using Adobe 8.
Printing iSeries reports and within a single doc some pages rotated.
The Print dialog box has a box to uncheck to "auto-rotate and center",
but cannot find same option to set in the Preferences (one time).
We have hundreds of customers we are emailing pdf's weekly, and this is
a big training issue we need to simplify.
Happens when nothing printed on bottom third of a page within report.
Any ideas? (besides putting a period at bottom of each page..)

I see you've had no responses, and I have no idea how or even if you can
do
this in Reader. Have you checked any of the freeware PDF readers?

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

- Dan
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