Problem printing .pdf to new .pdf

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August 18, 2023
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Hi, everyone, and thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Here's my problem: I start with an Acrobat file This file contains both landscape and portrait oriented pages. Because we need to force our clients to print with certain specific settings, I then print the document to a new .pdf. When I print the new .pdf, I need to select portrait or landscape and in the process the pages are then all turned to the same orientation, rather than the mixed orientation I began with. Is there a way to print to .pdf while keeping the current page orientation?

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Luke Jennings3

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You want a pdf that retains the rotated pages, always prints the stamps & markups and should protect the signatures from being easily copied, is this correct? Firstly, anything that can be viewed can be copied in one way or another. Stamps and markups can be flattened into regular page content using a preflight profile, as Bern mentioned (see attached screen shot). You could add security to the pdf to prevent editing, but it's not hard to get around that level of security. Another option is to use a preflight profile to convert the page content into a high-res images, but that would increase the pdf size and create accessibility problems. Printing pdf to pdf can cause unexpected changes and is rarely the best option. You could create a layered pdf, with the top layer containing an invisible image, which would confound many, if not most users when they try to select and copy a signature, but this could be a problem if a non-Adobe viewer that does not respect layers is used.

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Celest.CouchAuthor

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We want our clients to NOT be able to change certain printing options, for example we don't want them to be able to print the document without the stamps and markup.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can flatten the pages.

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Celest.CouchAuthor

Participant

Can you explain, please? The method we were previously using to flatten still allowed the end user to pick up signatures off the document and copy them, which we needed to prevent. Perhaps you have a better method, though, than ours?

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Why does you use this workflow?

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