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srmessamer
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Nov 21, 2018 6:27 PM UTC
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Is there a way to mark individual pages as non-printable?

Is there a way to mark individual pages as non-printable? So that whenever the document is printed, the marked page will be skipped? I have a genealogy chart on a page that is 22x8.5. I'd like that to be viewable when displayed, but skipped when printed. I have Acrobat DC ver 2019.008.20081

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Dov Isaacs
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Legend
Nov 21, 2018 7:50 PM UTC

There is nothing in the PDF specification (an ISO specification and not an Adobe specification) that provides for that type of functionality at the page level. You can conceivably have “layers” in a PDF file that are marked as non-printable and if the page is printed, it will be blank on output although visible on screen. Conceivably you could write a sophisticated script that could do something like what you want, but it depends on a PDF viewer program supporting Javascript. I am sure some of our script experts will chime in here!

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Dov Isaacs
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Legend
Nov 21, 2018 7:50 PM UTC

There is nothing in the PDF specification (an ISO specification and not an Adobe specification) that provides for that type of functionality at the page level. You can conceivably have “layers” in a PDF file that are marked as non-printable and if the page is printed, it will be blank on output although visible on screen. Conceivably you could write a sophisticated script that could do something like what you want, but it depends on a PDF viewer program supporting Javascript. I am sure some of our script experts will chime in here!

          - Dov

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- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
srmessamerAuthor
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Nov 22, 2018 11:11 PM UTC

Thanks. What I ended up doing was to print the 22x8.5 page from Illustrator to pdf tiled as 2 portrait pages, then in Acrobat rotate the 2 pages to landscape, then display in Acrobat in a 2-page spread. That displays well in Acrobat and if printed the 2 pages can be taped together to recreate the chart.

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