December 08, 2005
Printing *.pdf files
When you open a .pdf file, you're really opening the file and the program that allows you to view it. As a result, you actually have 1 document and 2 programs open at once. The print options that you choose are specific to the program that they're in. Therefore use the Adobe Toolbar Print function instead of the browser's Print function to print Adobe *.pdf files.
Note: if you only want to print some pages in a *.pdf file keep in mind that the numbering of a *.pdf file's pages may vary from the page numbers printed on the pages themselves. This usually results when there are title, acknowledgement and table of contents pages which are unnumbered in the original, but get numbered in the *.pdf version.
Troubleshooting:
If you're having big black dots show up on your printouts, try "Print As Image" on the Print dialog box:
