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Inspiring
August 23, 2016
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Print Window Display

  • August 23, 2016
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When printing PDF files there is a thumbnail of the document displayed. If it is a color document and you want to simply print it gray you can use the Advanced settings and change the Color from Composite to Composite Gray. When you do this, the thumbnail in the Advance window changes but the thumbnail in the Print window does not, it always shows color.

So, because Acrobat remembers the setting from the previous print job, if you print a new color print it will print gray also. It could be hours between prints so you would not remember that the previous print was forced to gray. Because the thumbnail in the Print window always shows color you can't know for sure that the Color selection in the Advance window is not set to Gray.

If the thumbnail in the Print window was the same as the thumbnail in the Advance window (it reflects the Color selection: Composite or Composite Gray) the user could know before sending a job what the print results will be. As it is now, you have to look each time at the Advance settings because the thumbnail in the Print window could be incorrect.

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Correct answer MrBB Print

The answer to this is not necessarily obvious. Look carefully at the tiny thumbnail. If the "Print in grayscale (black and white) is checked the thumbnail is gray, otherwise it is in color.

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MrBB PrintAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
April 23, 2019

The answer to this is not necessarily obvious. Look carefully at the tiny thumbnail. If the "Print in grayscale (black and white) is checked the thumbnail is gray, otherwise it is in color.

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