Printing Adobe Acrobat Files

Have any of you noticed how slowly your printer will print out several pages from an Adobe Acrobat file compared to printing several pages from Wordpad? Well, if you are not so interested in keeping the exact format of the Acrobat file, you can highlight and copy each page of the Acrobat file to Wordpad and then rapidly print it out. However, it is a pain in the neck to copy each page to Wordpad to do this. So the big question!! Does anyone know how to highlight and copy several Acrobat pages at once so you can copy them to Wordpad for fast printing? It would be great if you could do this.

 

In Acrobat Reader hit Ctrl-A to select text on all pages, hit Ctrl-C to copy that information to the clipboard, finally hit Ctrl-V in Wordpad to paste the info.

 

I have always worked around printing difficulties in stubborn programs by sending it to my fax manager and printing from there. It allows much more freedom of selection and prints at a good clip.

Some programs I have don't allow anything but one simple print command, which prints all pages (sometimes 10 or more). This fax workaround has been very helpful there. It also makes it easier to do two-sided copies without having to pause the printer by pulling all paper out or opening the lid to stop printing in the midst of a run.

It also allows for previewing each page, which some programs won't allow.

I hope this helps you solve your problem.

 

Maybe you fellows know something I don't. Hitting Ctrl-A only highlights the current page of the Adobe Reader document shown on your screen. That I know and that I've done. My point is to copy 100 pages of an Adobe document means a lot of Copy and Paste if you have to do each page by itself. Does anyone know a way to highlight EVERY PAGE in the Adobe document, so I can Copy and Paste only once?

 

Here's the answer.
After you open the Adobe document, go to view and select continuous. This eliminates the page breaks. So now when you go to edit and choose "select all" all of the text is highlighted even across pages. Then copy it and paste it into Wordpad or some other word processing document.

 

ackerberg--I understand your solution still does not allow preservation of the .pdf formatting. Please let me know if I misunderstood. I also would like to know how to print .pdf pages with formatting at a reasonably speedy pace.

 

What are you printing to?
My HP laserjet 4150 does not care what I throw at it.

 

I'm printing to an HP 870Cse printer, several years old but with the latest drivers.
When copying and pasting the Adobe file into another word processing document, I believe the formatting is not preserved. I was never trying to preserve the formatting and also any figures are not copied and pasted. You have to do each one of those separately.

 

ackerberg--In the toolbar of the latest version of Acrobat Reader there is another icon just to the right of the T (text select tool) which is the graphic select tool. If you click that and draw a rectangle with the cross hair cursor around the .pdf page (part or all) you want to copy and then Edit|Copy you will have the copied page with all formatting and graphics in Clipboard. If you then paste that into Wordpad, Word, etc. you can print out the .pdf page in all its glory. But it still is very slow printing.
Still would like to hear how to print out a .pdf page (even without formatting) as fast as a normal page prints.

 

Hm, that's funny because when I'm in Acrobat Reader (version 5.0.5) and I hit Ctrl-A it selects everything in multi-page documents. I don't know what version you have but maybe later versions (or the most recent version) selects everything when hitting Ctrl-A.

 

Hulka, I'm using v4 and perhaps you have checked continuous scroll under view so you have no page breaks. This will allow the whole document to be selected at once.

 

I haven't modifed any of the settings in Acrobat Reader 5.0.5, perhaps this option is simply enabled by default in this version.