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pageHandling fit to page size

New Here ,
Oct 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020

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I am creating a print button to automatically print a document with mixed pages sizes.

The printer has both Letter and Legal size paper available in different trays.

How can use javascript to fit a page that is 7" x 12" to Legal size paper but a page that is 6 1/2" x 8" to Letter size paper?

 

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Community Expert , Oct 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020

A script can't choose the paper size to print to, unless you have different printers for each size, and then you could specify the printer name in each print command. What you're describing will require a much more complicated script, though.

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Use this code:

var pp = this.getPrintParams();
pp.pageHandling = pp.constants.handling.fit;
this.print(pp);

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Unfortunately, this fits only to the paper in tray 1 of the printer (which is Letter).

I need to fit page by page to the next larger size.

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Do you mean that you want to select the printer based on the page size? If so, try this:

 

var pp = this.getPrintParams();
fv = pp.constants.flagValues;
pp.flags = pp.flags | fv.setPageSize;
this.print(pp);

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If I understand the API reference correctly, the setPageSize flag tells Acrobat to select the paper based on the page size. That's not exactly what I need to do.

I need to go page by page and choose what to do based on the actual size in the pdf file...

So page 1 is 8 1/2" x 11" setPageSize flag and print it to Letter.

Page 2 is 6 1/2" x 8" use PageHandling.fit to scale it to Letter.

Page 3 is 8 1/2" x 14" setPageSize flag and print it to Legal.

Page 4 is 10" x 16" - ??? I want this to fit to Legal but I don't know how. If I use PageHandling.fit it scales to Letter

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A script can't choose the paper size to print to, unless you have different printers for each size, and then you could specify the printer name in each print command. What you're describing will require a much more complicated script, though.

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I appreciate your help.

But it would seem that a good addition to the Javascript api for Acrobat would be a way to specify the pag size that handling.fit resizes to.

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I agree, but it's not up to me... You can suggest it to Adobe here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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Ok, different question - in the print dialog you can set a custom scale for printing.

Is there a javascript equivalent for that?

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Only if you print using the Tile option.

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