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gtsolid
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April 23, 2016
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2 pages per sheet, double sided

  • April 23, 2016
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hello

i do not own a double-sided printer, but i want to print 2 pages per sheet. i will manually turn the papers.

if i use the printer mask i should key all couples of page.

so i would to substitute all odd pages for example with white ones, and the same for even.

i would have 2 pdf to print.

how can i do this?

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    Matt32425323lfs4
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    July 15, 2024

    Reviving an old thread here, but there is an easier way to do this on a Mac than needing to manually mask pages, it just involves ripping the PDF into a printer ready format before sending to actually print.  Try the steps below.

    1 - Right click and open the PDF in an app other than Acrobat (eg Safari).

    2 - Go to File > Print

    3 - Underneath the Page Orientation, select the Layout option from the dropdown
    4 - Set the Pages Per sheet to '2', and the Layout direction to Horizontal

    5 - Click the PDF dropdown in the lower left corner, and save the document to a new PDF file.

    6 - Open the newly created PDF in Acrobat

    7 - Each sheet should now contain 2 pages of the original document, and can be printed normally.  If your printer does not have a duples funciton, print the odd pages in the stack, then rotate the paper and re-print for even.

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 23, 2016
    • print the odd pages only
    • manually turn the papers
    • print the even pages only (check the entry reverse pages)
    gtsolid
    gtsolidAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 24, 2016

    i cannot, because i want to print 2 pages per page (4 in totale per sheet)

    Abambo
    Community Expert
    AbamboCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2017

    So a few hundred or thousand dollars to get a plugin that restores functionality previously available in older versions of Mac OS and Adobe software. Does that seem right to you? (Other people in this forum have commented on this BTW)


    briandkatz1  wrote

    So a few hundred or thousand dollars to get a plugin that restores functionality previously available in older versions of Mac OS and Adobe software.

    When was that removed from MacOS? (Please not: I'm a Windows user and with Windows, the PDF Acrobat printer is still available).

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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    Anonymous
    April 23, 2016

    Hi ,

    Double sided printing is done if your printer supports this functionality.

    Please check this document.

    Print double-sided | Adobe Acrobat, Reader https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-double-sided-acrobat-reader.html

    Regards

    Sukrit Dhingra

    gtsolid
    gtsolidAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 23, 2016

    hi.

    my printer is not double-sided, so i would to find a manual alternative (blank pages or other)

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