Adobe Acrobat Print Preview not supported

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Adobe Acrobat Print Preview not supported

I have Adobe Acrobat 8.2.0 and have been having this issue (not really a problem but it bugs me) where when I go to print a PDF and click on preview before sending the document to the printer I always get this message pop up that says "Preview is not supported." I just like to be able to get an idea of what things will look like before potentially wasting paper.

Is this normal and expected or is there something I can do to get print preview to work?

 MacPro 1.1, 2 x 3GHz Dual Cores, Mac OS X (10.5.8), MacBook Pro, iPhone 3GS (3.1.2)

Posted on Feb 3, 2010 9:58 PM

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Network 23

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Feb 3, 2010 10:26 PM in response to smilingdog

It's normal and expected because Acrobat has a more powerful printing and preview capability than Preview, so running output through Preview would just dumb it down.

If you set up your Page Setup right, the preview in the Acrobat Print dialog (Copies and Pages) is pretty effective for predicting print size and position relative to the true print margins. For color previewing, if you use Advanced/Print Production/Output Preview in Acrobat it, too, blows away the soft proofing in Preview.

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smilingdog Author

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Feb 3, 2010 10:55 PM in response to Network 23

Thanks for the useful info Network 23.

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