Instead of a physical printer, you can select Adobe PDF in almost any Windows or Mac OS application. Print to PDF creates an electronic copy of your file that you can save to disk.
I have never had this happen, but whenever I attempt to print a pdf, it opens a 'save as' box instead. So I've saved the pdf to my desktop, but after it's opened again I select print and the same 'save as' box pops up again. The ONLY way I've been able to print is by right-clicking the pdf file from my desktop. Only then does it actually print. Open the PDF in which you want to disable printing in Acrobat Pro. Click 'File' on the menu bar and choose 'Properties' to open the Document Properties dialog box. Click the 'Security' tab to display the Document Security section of the dialog box. Click the 'Security Method' drop-down and choose 'Password Security.'
When I open a PDF file and try to print, it prints to prn file and saves the file to desktop. Even though the correct printer is selected. If I right-click on the file and say print, it goes to the printer, but then i can't chose pages, it prints the whole document. Event.target.print(pp); However, end users do not need soft copy printer (adobe PDF, MS Windows XPS document writer, etc) to be listed in the dropdown box. How to identify the printer type (printer or print to file) using JavaScript? Please advise. Thanks in advance.
Note: Printing a file to PDF using the Adobe PDF printer flattens the file.
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Ensure that Acrobat is installed on your computer, otherwise, the Adobe PDF printer or the Save As Adobe PDF option won't appear. Don’t have Acrobat? Try Acrobat for free.
Watch this video tutorial to use the Adobe PDF Printer to create PDFs from almost any application.
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- Choose Adobe PDF as the printer in the Print dialog box.To customize the Adobe PDF printer setting, click the Properties (or Preferences) button. (In some applications, you may need to click Setup in the Print dialog box to open the list of printers, and then click Properties or Preferences.)
- Click Print. Type a name for your file, and click Save.
For more information on Adobe PDF printer settings, see Using the Adobe PDF printer.
The Adobe PDF printer is not available on Mac. However, you can use the Save As Adobe PDF option to print a file to PDF on Mac.
Note:
In macOS Mojave (v10.14), when you try to print a document to PDF using the System Print Dialog > Save As Adobe PDF, the following error message is displayed: 'This workflow contains the action Save As Adobe PDF, which is provided by a third party. Third party actions must be explicitly enabled.'
To resolve this error, see Error in saving as Adobe PDF | macOS Mojave 10.14.
- Click the PDF button and choose Save As Adobe PDF.
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