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does anyone happen to know how to get a two-sided print out of Acrobat X? i have a 295 page numbers help document i want to print out and i can't find this setting no matter how much i look. the Adobe forum seems to be somewhat "windows-centric" but i am going to ask there as well.
i also tried a "two sided printing" search in the Acrobat help and no results came up.
TIA for any help on this.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), win 7 + win xp in boot camp
I am assuming that your printer does not have a built-in duplex unit, otherwise you could select the Printer button in the bottom left of the Acrobat print dialog and select 2-sided via the driver settings.
So in this case, you can use the More Options section, which is shown below and select to print all odd pages first. Once they have printed, you can load them back into the printer and select to print the even pages on the blank side.
I am assuming that your printer does not have a built-in duplex unit, otherwise you could select the Printer button in the bottom left of the Acrobat print dialog and select 2-sided via the driver settings.
So in this case, you can use the More Options section, which is shown below and select to print all odd pages first. Once they have printed, you can load them back into the printer and select to print the even pages on the blank side.
As PAHU noted, your printer first has to have a duplexer. If it does, you will have an option to print both sides in Acrobat's Print menu:
If you know for a fact that your printer has a duplexer, then you likely have the wrong printer driver installed. It's not at all unusual for a manufacturer to offer several models of the same printer with different options. The base model being the cheapest, usually with no duplexer or Ethernet port, and the slowest print speeds. The next with a duplexer and Ethernet with higher print speed, and the most expensive with those options, and also a built it hard drive.
In my example, there are four drivers installed for the Xerox 7500. One for each version they sell. Choose the wrong one, and as far as the OS is concerned it has no duplexer, because the driver says it doesn't.
hi gents.
thank you.
i do in fact have a duplex unit the HP 8600 All in One. the driver section for this printer (accessed through the Print + Scan options in Preferences) shows up as "HP OfficeJet Pro 8600" and it has both the Duplexer option checked as well as the "Additional Paper Input Tray" checked. Driver version is 3.3.3. also, note that i DO print on two sides in some of my other software (including docs printing with/from iOS7 on my iPhone).
i guess i need to check to see if i have the correct driver (?) but can you help me with two things before we get there?
1. when i hit File > Print in Acrobat i get what looks like a "Mac" printer interface. it doesn't actually look like either of your screenshots (thanks) - even though i /think/ i have seen these before either on the laptop or on the desktop.
if i click on "Printer" in my dialog i then get a prompt (in this case with an adobe logo) that i have never understood: "The Print Setup dialog box is provided by the operating system. To ensure that you can use the full print capabilities of Acrobat, please set all print options from the Applications dialog box. Do you want to continue? Yes/No".
does anyone know what this means or what i am misunderstanding in all of this? seems totally bizarre to get the mac print dialog and then get into the Printer button and then get this option especially if i am running a print pulldown option from Acrobat...
2. i am having to /manually/ put paper tray with the proper paper size into my two tray Espon WF 7520. i want to say that i /don't/ have this problem with the HP 8600 but now that i think about it i am not sure i have ever tried the second paper tray on the 8600. HOWEVER, i /do/ see the Duplexer checkbox option in the Driver settings of the 8600 while i /don't/ see this setting in the Epson WF 7520.
does anyone know if this is likely (also?!) a DRIVER SIDE ISSUE with respect to not getting any of my software to print to the second tray on the Epson? i mean, if i sherlock holmes this i /could/ say that if i cannot print to the second tray it is likely a old or wrong driver issue or even a implementation that they did not build into the good driver - since i cannot get to the second tray from anything on anything? or would this be incorrect...?
THANKS
hi gents. fwiw i am printing the doc 2 sided out of preview. i would like to make sure i know how to get things working in these other respect however as not having this functionality in acrobat seems mighty bad for functionality and workflow-wise.
Since you can print two sided from other apps, it's not a driver issue.
Printing with Acrobat Pro or the free Reader got weird in version 9 or 10. You have to go through its print dialogue to print PDF files correctly. If you're viewing a PDF file within your web browser, move the mouse towards the bottom of the window until this strip appears:
The left most is the standard "save to disk" icon if you want to keep a copy of the PDF file. The second is the print button which will produce the Print dialogue both PAHU and I show a sample of.
If you're viewing a PDF document directly in Acrobat, that is also the print dialogue box that should come up, and not OS X's default sheet display.
hi kurt. thanks.
this printing stuff is so confounding and discombobulated over here. i open /different/ software to get different print functionality just to get through the day. it would be nice to solve a couple of issues at some point. Epson gives you the generic answers with "what you should see is something like..." and you don't even know if they are talking about Mac OS.
can i ask you what you make of these two screenshots? one is the numbers guide (was trying to print it two sided from acrobat...) and the other is the print dialog that comes up. third screenshot is if i hit "Page Setup" and the fourth is if i hit "Printer".
i feel like i would have better luck taking up rubiks cube...
You have your printer selected in Acrobat's drop down menu, but still aren't getting the same dialogue.
I have a feeling you're using an old version of Acrobat and/or the Reader. What makes me think that is you don't have any of the layout buttons:
Download and install the latest version of the free Acrobat Reader.
hi kurt.
THANK YOU.
this is sort of weird. i will have to look into it.
i have the paid version which is Acrobat X 10.0.0.
i will update it in the coming days and see what i can come up with.
in the meantime i guess i am printing two sided pdf using Preview.
if i can also get these printer dialogs to let me switch paper trays out of /anything/ on Mac OS - well i guess that one will be another issue for me to tackle...
THANKS for all the wonderful help.
- jon
Yes, that is weird. Acrobat Pro X should work correctly. Not sure why it isn't seeing that it's a duplex printer. Even the least expensive of the three 8600 models has automatic duplex printing.
Does the print dialogue change if you click on the Page Setup button and change "Any Printer" to your actual model?
yeah. this was a good call but no dice i am afraid. i will keep thinking in this direction however moving forward.
this Page Setup thing seems disconnected from the original Print dialog in a bizarre way. i mean, when i have to print to the Epson WF 7520 i actually have to go into Page Setup and pulldown for the printer so that i can then /see/ the 12 x 18 or 11 x 17 paper and then i have to go back into the first printer dialog and then i have to remember to pulldown to the Epson /again/ or it will want to print to the default 8600. this actually took me a year and a half to figure out after realizing that it was not seeing custom page size or 18 x 12 (irrespective of orientation) and it had to be entered as 12 x 18.
anyway, i guess i have a workaround for now in the double sided from Preview but it would be nice to solve this at some point and/or to figure out if there is something else the matter.
this all seems so labrythine as to be unmanageable.
two side printing out of Acrobat?
