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_jack_grimes_
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December 30, 2006
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Acrobat 8 printing problems

  • December 30, 2006
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duplex printing of a pdf file on either an hp 1320n or hp4300n, with OS X 10.4.8. Using several pdf fIles with odd number of pages, the last (odd) page is printed backwards and upside down. Every time.
If I print just the last page, it is printed backwards and upside down.
If I quit Acrobat 8, launch A8, and then print the last page, it prints correctly. This would seem to eliminate the printing subsystem.

single (no duplex printing) printing, two pages per page (print dialog box option), of a pdf file. First page (original first/second page) prints OK, subsequent pages printed backwards and upside down. (Also after a relaunch of A8).

MacBook Pro 17, OS X 10.4.8, 2G RAM, A8 version 8.0.0 (initial release)
What is going on? Can anyone repeat this behavior?
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    _Keith_Emerling_
    Participant
    June 11, 2007
    I've used preview as well but seem to have a problem getting the photos to print with dark areas dark enough... The blacks seem to print much better as a Quark 6.5 file

    G5 PowerPC OS 10.4.9 Acrobat 8.0 CS3. Printer HP p2015dn. Using a calibrated reference CRT (Artisan)

    I couldn't get Acrobat 8.1 update to complete the install process. It just kept telling me Acrobat and Safari were still open. I couldn't install it no matter how many times I quit Acrobat and Safari.

    Acrobat 8 seems to have some serious flaws as far as I can see and crashes almost every time I try to print. Is it possible to revert to Acrobat 7.x and still have it function properly?

    Keith
    ~graffiti
    ~graffiti
    Legend
    June 10, 2007
    >Adobe is being negligent in fixing this!

    Have you tried the 8.1 update?
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    _Ward_Hanson_
    Participant
    June 10, 2007
    Just another message to this Forum. The problem is clearly with Acrobat 8 on Mac. Along with the duplex problem, it is incredibly slow just printing almost any document - at least 10 times slower than Preview on same document. The same document printed with Acrobat on "PC side" using Parallels works fine when it is running. Previous version of Acrobat 7 on Mac worked fine.

    (Hardware is Macbook Pro, HP 1320).

    It is essentially unusable as a printing program. Adobe is being negligent in fixing this!
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    _Doug_Saylor_
    Participant
    June 2, 2007
    Preview (the Mac program, not a driver setting) was the cure for me..

    I was getting the last page mirrored and upside down from InDesign and Acrobat but not from Word or Excel. I never run into it from PhotoShop, though.

    Simply save your file as a PDF and open it in Preview. It prints perfectly every time for me.

    Maybe this will help until the patch comes.
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    _Albert_Kiefer_
    Participant
    May 16, 2007
    Maybe this is a pointer...

    I tried to print from A8 to a postscript file via the pdf printer and it too did not work. I got a log file though that mentioned the following:

    %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%%

    Stack:
    /get_gstate
    false

    %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
    %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

    Maybe that is helpful?

    Albert
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    _Albert_Kiefer_
    Participant
    May 16, 2007
    Hi Mike,

    I tried that but to no avail... I re-set the system, added the printer and still Acrobat only prints out single page jobs. Multiple and double side seems to go to the printer. Printer says: processing... but then just stops.

    When printing from "Preview" it prints all of these files just fine and double sided or multiple single-sided no problems...

    Albert

    My system (just in case...): Mac Powerbook G4, OSX 10.4.9, 1Gb RAM, Acrobat 8 Professional version 8.0.0
    Mr. Met
    Mr. Met
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2007
    Images are dropping out of supplied PDFs in Acrobat 8 but printing correctly from Acrobat 6. Client uses QX 6.x and exports to PDF.
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    _Albert_Kiefer_
    Participant
    May 15, 2007
    These problems have only ocurred since a few days though so I am not sure what is causing this. There are no error messages to be found for me to diagnose...
    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    May 16, 2007
    Albert,

    Try deleting the printer and resetting the printing system. Sometimes it
    helps.

    Mike
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    _Albert_Kiefer_
    Participant
    May 15, 2007
    I am no longer able to print to my HP p3005dn from Acrobat 8 on my Powerbook G4 with 1gb of RAM under os x 10.4.9. When I send a print command the pages are spooled and the printer says: processing and then just stops and sets the status to : ready with no page printed.

    When I print via the "preview" application in OS X everything goes as should be.
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    _DG_1
    Participant
    May 14, 2007
    I had all the printing problems above with my HP Officejet 7300 Series All-in-one. I tried updating the drivers etc to no avail. One thing worked.

    I found the disk specifically for the Mac for the HP All-in-one printers and loaded it on my OS X 10.4.9 and it works well now.

    The Key is getting your hands on that HP disk. Mine was CD version 7.0.0 and it came with my All-in-one.
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