4 Replies Latest reply: Jul 15, 2009 11:01 AM by KStreetStudio RSS

    Printing to Acrobat = no images!???

    KStreetStudio Community Member

      I writing my own software that does a bunch of stuff for a lab, and one thing it needs to do is print a two page report.  Page 2 has two bitmaps on it.  I can print (on paper) to a number of printers, HP LaserJets and inkjets, with no problems, but when I try printing to Acrobat, to create PDF files (obviously), the two bimaps don't print.  Well, sometimes they don't print, or maybe only one of them prints.  But this doesn't ever happen on my other printers.  I can create PDF files using a SmartDraw PDF FIlter, something that came with a flowcharting program I bought last year, and it works fine.  But, again, Acrobat doesn't.

       

      One other thing, I've been dealing with this for a while, and in earlier versions of Acrobat, v5 I think, it didn't work, then an update came along and it started working, then another update came along and it quit working...

       

      Recent;y I've started trying out programming tools from other authors, things that promise to streamline my prinngint, and they do, but the bitmap printing problem is still with me.

       

      Given that my program works well and consistenlty for other printers, and I'm not doing anything special regarding how I call Windows' printer functions, and for that PDF filter, what's up with Acrobat and how do I fix it.

       

      By the way, my bitmaps are 2400x1800 images, and they are bitmaps, not tiff or jpeg.  They print at about 7.5" wide and 4" or so high, so I think my file size is about right for getting good results, about 320 ppi.

       

      Thanks.