Microsoft Print to pdf turns a landscape page 90 degrees

[DanielGAJohnson]

Hi all,

So the document was created in Adobe Pro XI and some of the pages in the middle have to be formatted in landscape, not by my design that's just how these documents are developed for paper use. Anyway, Let's say pages 1 and 2 are in portrait view, and pages 3 and 4 are in landscape view. When I use Microsoft's Print to PDF tool the landscaped pages get turned 90 degrees making the text unreadable. This is an issue because, while I use Adobe Pro for the creation of the documents, my in-field auditors use Adobe Reader to fill out the documents. Copies of the documents need to be sent to multiple people after the fact, and they have to be changed from a fillable document to non-fillable document, a process not achievable in Reader DC without Microsoft's Print to PDF tool. I have tried CutePDF too, same results. Any ideas?

Thanks,

DJ

[Dov Isaacs]

Yeah, don't use amateur hour products to do professional work. With Microsoft's “print to PDF” (Windows 10) and CutePDF, you are getting exactly what you paid for.

If you want support for those products, go to Microsoft or Acro Software respectively. Don't expect support for those “products” on Adobe forums! Sorry!

          - Dov

[DanielGAJohnson]

So the answer is to buy x-number of Pro DC licenses for my staff and teach them the Save As Optimized PDF -> Discard fillable form fields route? No way to do this with Reader DC?

[try67]

Reader is not capable of creating PDF files.

[Dov Isaacs]

Read my response. Put in the appropriate JavaScript in the forms such that when the person finishes filling out the form, they can push a button to "save" the form and in the process, flatten the form data into the underlying content. That JavaScript will work in Reader!

          - Dov

[try67]

Flattening the form will work in Reader?

[Dov Isaacs]

It should just like other JavaScript actions in a form work in Reader!

          - Dov

[try67]

Not all JS methods work in Reader, you know... Specifically, the flattenPages command, which is the one used to convert form fields into static content, can't be used in Reader at all.

[Dov Isaacs]

Right you are! That's what I get from only using Acrobat Pro and never Reader!  🙂

          - Dov

[Dov Isaacs]

If you have a good number of these “in field auditors” you could probably get a low cost volume license and the cost will not be as painful. Investigate <Compare licensing programs | Adobe Buying Programs >.

          - Dov