access 'Choose Papersource by PDF Page Size' option via code
Hello,
The screenshot in this post has a 'Choose Papersource by PDF Page Size" checkbox
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/print-mixed-page-sizes-acrobat.html
I was about to ask 'How can I control the state of that checkbox via Code or any other trick ?' and noticed a few similar posts about this subject with others having the same problem;
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The suggestions and links in this article are useless, they point to a .NET based print approach (which is a rasterized method = bigger spool file and less quality) and do not use the far more efficient Acrobat Printing Infrastructure
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same problem, unrelated info being given. None of the posts gives an answer to the choose source by pdf size question.
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I am familiar with Interapplication Communication API Reference from the Acrobat SDK.
The 'PrintPagesSilentEx does have a few good parameters, but it does not have an option for the mixed papersize.
After a bit research the following works fine for me and is simple to implement from any platform. I am posting this to assist others that are stuck with this.
Access this Registry Key, adjust Acrobat Pro or Reader and Version according to your System
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\AVGeneral
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\AVGeneral
look for Key Value : bprintSetPageSize (DWORD)
Set to 0 : checkmark will be OFF when Acrobat is opened
Set to 1 : checkmark will be ON when Acrobat is opened
This registry hack will not work if you do this while Acrobat is opened (via code or manually) because Acrobat reads the Registry at startup once and caches the registry setting. Acrobat saves the last state set by the user into the registry during shutdown.
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