How do I poster print on two landscape pages?

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I made an illustration (Illustrator) with a page size of 17" x 22", saved to a PDF so I could print on a different computer (no Illustrator) that has access to a device that can print 11 x 17". I wanted to poster print on two 11 x 17" pages, landscape mode. Using Acrobat Reader DC (2015.016.20045), I selected Landscape orientation in the Print dialog. When I then select Poster, the orientation is ignored and it wants to split my document across four portrait pages for a total size of 22 x 34". This gives extra seams, and a lot of excess white I'd have to trim. How do I get my document to poster print on two landscape pages?

Apparently this isn't a new issue: Adobe Reader X poster print module (Print Production) The answers there didn't seem to indicate an understanding of the problem.

(I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise and printing to a Sharp MX-5111N.)

waltero48435834 · Answer

I think that Reader computes the number of pages required to print at the current zoom level. If both portrait and landscape take the same number of pages, it uses portrait, and there's nothing (that I know of) you can do about it. For my project, I was able to shrink the zoom level slightly so that landscape took fewer pages, and Reader printed it landscape. Hope this helps others.

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