What is the best way to print a PDF document with a large number of documents so that the start of a successive document does not end up printing on the back page of the prior document? Each document has a cover page and could be used as a "key", but not sure how to set that "cover page" as the key which could then be used to instruct the printer to start on a new page - almost as if a new print job??
Ok, so you have single page and double page documents in one PDF file and you want the single page files to print on one sheet and the double page files to print on the front and back of the sheet? If you have Acrobat, you can insert blank pages after each single page document, or separate the file into individual documents.
Inserting a blank page would certainly work. But the volume I'm looking at would be labor intensive. I hoping to determine a more automated method. Splitting the file is a great option (I have Acrobat 9.0 and the split document feature is in there.) My issue with the split document feature is the options. I can split the PDF by number of pages but my problem is the reports are all varying in page length. The other option is to split on top level bookmarks. I just don't know how to insert top level bookmarks in an automated way. Is there a way that you know of?
Here's one way, while not automated, you might find helpful to separate your file. Go to View> Navigation Panels> Pages (or Thumbnails). Select a group of pages (thumbnails) that represent one report, extract the pages and save to a new file. You can also drag and drop thumbnails into a new document.
Thanks for the ideas. I think I will look into some simple programming options. I was hoping Acrobat had come across something like this before and had already accounted for it. Maybe in future versions. Thanks again for the ideas.
Is there a way to split a document at top level bookmarks? I am having the same issue and do not want to insert blank pages in the document. I have multiple PDF documents merged into a single PDF with bookmarks and hyperlinks and I want users to be able to print a proper copy (single sides singled and double sides doubled) without having to go section by section. If there is a way to use the bookmark feature to accomplish this, that would be most helpful.
I think there are some add-on software things out there but when I looked into them a number of months ago it turned out not to be feasible for what I was trying to do. Hope you find something useful.
contra120, would you happen to recall if those add-ons were offered by Adobe? It may be worth it for our organization to invest in additional software for a reduction in man-hours for printing.
If you do not recall, no biggie. I may be able to sweet talk IT into a little legwork to find something that fits the bill.
I didn't keep the notes. I did some web searches. For what it is worth...if I remember right, one of the intriguing ones I found was developed by a company based out of Germany - again don't remember the name but it might help your IT guys in searching. (I'm in the US) Hope it works for you.
is a program which you can select a bunch of pdf files and combine them into one pdf. In the options pane , you can tell it to automatically add a blank page at the end of each odd numbered pdf file. You can simply then print the new combined pdf double sided on your copier, and it would print correct.
If you want to still have the pdf as separate pdfs, in Options you can select " bookmark by file name" before combining.
After combining, view the new pdf in Acrobat and you can 'split pdfs by top level bookmarks.
I was hoping someone has found a way to resolve this issue. I now am faced with the same dilemna. I have a 200+ page at the smallest that needs to be printed in both single and double sided in different sections and they are using Adobe for this. I am even up for a software idea if anyone has found anything remotely close to fulfilling these needs. Thanks Everyone!
I have the same issue. We have a PDF with top-level bookmarks and need Acrobat to send each bookmark individually. Sure, we could extract the bookmarks and print them one by one but that is not the most productive way to get it done. I have noticed that if you are viewing the list of bookmarks in Acrobat you can right click on any bookmark and tell it to print and it will. However if you select multiple bookmarks and right click and tell it to print, it only prints the bookmark that you right clicked on instead of each individual bookmark like it should.
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