Acrobat 8 Prints Color pdf as b/w--Why?

See attached file. When I try to print it,. the it's as though I've used a b/w printer. Worse the photos are almost entirely black. What's up?

Thanks. That worked. I wonder why though the material is displayed in
color, but not b/w if the print default is b/w? I suppose in someway
that still makes sense.
I don't see anyway to respond to you on the forum, so I'm just
responding from my InBox.

Similar Messages

When printing in Excel It is always want to use the acrobat X pro trial, which the trial is expired. I do not want to use acrobat X pro trial anymore. How can I reset it and use simple acrobat to print my PDF document?

When printing in Excel It is always want to use the acrobat X pro trial, which the trial is expired. I do not want to use acrobat X pro trial anymore. How can I reset it and use simple acrobat to print my PDF document?

Hi screen name,
Adobe PDF printer gets installed when you install Acrobat 10 Pro.
To use this printer you need to purchase Acrobat. Once the trial period is over you cannot use the printer to create pdf files.
An alternative way for you is to utilize Microsoft's own inbuilt pdf engine.
You can simply open the file and select 'Save as' and in the type list select 'pdf'
Please refer : http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/excel-help/save-as-pdf-HA010354239.aspx
Regards,
Rave

Acrobat 9.31 / Browser Plugin - Printing Color PDF as Black and White?

I have an interesting issue for the masses. For a couple of our users (it encompasses both Windows XP x64 and Windows 7 x64), they are having an issue where when they attempt to print a PDF directly from Acrobat's browser plugin (in this case, IE8 is the browser), and attempt to print a color PDF to a color printer, the PDF comes out in black and white.
Here's some other consistents:
* Printing to a network printer, using the print driver Canon C5180-H1 Ver.2.0JM. The problem spans across two different print servers (we use a different one for XP clients and 7 clients, but the driver is the same)
* When the user clicks on "Print As Image", it does work (but doesn't look quite as good)
* When the user saves the PDF to a file and then opens it in the full Acrobat 9 Pro application, it does work (but this is a bit annoying)
Can anyone suggest some other things I should check and/or reasons that this might be happening? I'm at a total loss to explain it but will happily accept suggestions on ways to fix it.
Thanks!

Following up to see if anyone has some solid ideas on how this might be happening.
Thanks!

Acrobat 9 Printer Color Management

Hello! Around 1 month ago I started work in a new printing house. In my old company I used Acrobat 7 for making post script files but here I have to work with Acrobat 9.
It is little confusing for me (I am not so familiar with the prepress matter maybe!) because in Acrobat 7 I had a "printer/post script color management" option and in Acrobat 9 by which now I make the ps files I find "printer color management" option without post script mentioned in it.
So I would wish to ask is this exactly the same option and is there some risk in using it in the same way I did it in the Acrobat 7? I fear some color changes or even objects losing on the paper next during the printing process...

It sounds to me like the same option. Perhaps it also applies to non-PostScript printers now. If the printer is capable of good colour management (many are not); and if the PDF is properly tagged with source profiles, no reason why results shouldn't be good.

Acrobat 9 Printing to PDF

Acrobat 9 installation has stopped printing to PDF printer. Windows 7, 64biy; Acrobat version 9.5.4; Distiller version 9.5.3305. When trying to print test page, goes to file save dialog box and freezes. Tried many suggested fixes including installing new PDF printer, but nothing seems to work. Unfortunately I'm in the midst of moving and my original disks are in a truck somewhere, so haven't been able to do a re-install. Any suggestions on what to try?

At this point I would suggest doing Help>Repair. After that is complete, I also suggest checking for updates with Help>Updates. See if that helps.
The print-to-file process is the most basic process in creating PDFs and if it does not work, then most other methods will fail also. The next is to just print to the Adobe PDF printer normally. The 3rd approach is to use the Acrobat menu in WORD (or Save As>Adobe PDF) which is called PDF Maker. The 4th method is to right click and select create PDF. The last method is to use the create from the file menu in Acrobat. Each of these methods gets more complex and in some part may depend on the previous method, so checking in order form 1 to 5 is a good troubleshooting process.

How to print color PDF in B&W

I have some pdf files that were created from Powerpoint.
The background is blue and letters yellow.
Is there a way to print w/ bkgd white and letters black,
so I don't have to print all these pages in blue bkgd
and use up the color ink?
(I have Acrobat 8 Professional)
Thank you.

There's a "Plain Paper, Fast Draft, Black and White", but no 'just remove colour" type of selection.
You're right, of course, this is a B/W selection, but it degrades the quality (maybe that's too inherent in removing colour?). I was looking for higher-quality colour removal. Reading what I just typed makes me sound like a nitwit, so maybe that's the best I'm going to be able to do... Thanks for putting my head straight!

Acrobat XI - print to PDF

I had tried Acrobat X but it was so unstable I figured I'd wait for XI. Now I am trying (and really want to buy) XI but it still seems to be so immature and unstable. I have 2 problems I could use help on if anyone would like to help.
My 1st problem, when printing to from different applications (MS Word, Firefox, etc) PDF, nothing ever happens other than it says it is spooling. Attempting to cancel the print fails. Attemps to delete the print job fails. Nothing short of rebooting will clear the print spooling logjam.
2nd problem, I have merged several medical forms into a single PDF (was warned I may loose duplicate named fields). I said OK. Then went to see which fields may have been "merged" so that I might fix them or add new fields to replace them. Now, Acrobat crashes whenever I try to edit or save that PDF. Also, when attempting to edit the forms, I can no longer see the list of form fields in the right-side pane.
Windows XP Version 5.1.2600
Adobe XI 11.0.1
Any help would sure be appreciated.
Message was edited by: netcentric
Here's an update. I changed the properties of the PDF printer by turning off print spooling so that it "Print directly to the printer." Now the software is hung in the printing stage. I have an Adobe dialog entitled "Creating Adobe PDF" in the title bar. The dialog message is "PDF Progress" and the name of the document being printed and a status bar that never gets beyond 3 bars. HELP please :)

Is AcroTray running in the background? Can you print to file using the Adobe PDF printer and open the file in Distiller to complete the conversion to PDF?

Difficulty printing colors from Acrobat 8 PDF

I'm running Acrobat 8.1.2 and InDesign CS3 5.0.2.
We created a file in ID3 using two boxes containing Pantone color with transparency added. The color appears over a placed tif graphic that also had some transparency applied and a placed PDF with no transparency. Everything works properly when the file is exported to Acrobat 8 and printed from Acrobat 8.
We sent the file to a user in another area who still has Acrobat 7 and when they print the file they lose the colors. If we send the job to their printers from Acrobat 8 the colors print correctly so it doesn't seem to be a printer issue.
The Acrobat 7 user can print the file by choosing Print as Image under Output, but we are looking for what is causing the difficulty. Any ideas would be grealy appreciated.

I have no idea about the extend tool. You need to update to the latest version of AA 8, but it appears you are there with 8.3.1. You should print to the Adobe PDF printer. OFFICE 2013 is not compatible with the AA8 PDF Maker. So far I have only seen one person suggesting success with AA8 and Win8.1. If you can give details about your problem, we might be able to help, but you may not be successful. Only time and trial will tell.

Email printed to PDF, PDF appears accurate in Acrobat XI Pro, when PDF printed to paper text missing

HELP!!!
I have text disappear from Outlook emails printed to PDF when I print the PDF files from Acrobat XI Pro to a printer.
Here is a sample png from the PDF file printed out of Outlook - all the text is showing.
However when I print the PDF from Acrobat to a printer, the document comes out of the printer with text missing as shown:
The Acrobat print window shows all of the text that should be there as does Acrobat's view of the document.
Also, if I save the file to an image, all of the text is there.
I have tried different emails as well as different printers and the paper printed copies of the PDF emails are always missing text.
Additionally I have tried coverting the PDF file to a PDF/A file and printing that and the same problems occur.
Please send some tips as to how I can fix this!

Hello Atul -
i am having similar printing issues with Acrobat 10.1.4.
in my case both PDFs made by me (from InDesign files) and other PDFs made elsewhere and sent to me are missing text when printed to paper -though they look fine both on-screen and in the preview pane, as Katy noted above.
these PDFs print fine when i open and print from an older version of Acrobat (9.5.2).
they will also print fine from 10.1.4 if i send them to another printer in the office, (a Dell Color Laser 3110cn), the printer i have a problem with is a Kyocera Mita KM-5053 - which leads me to believe that this is some kind of communication error between Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.4 and this printer, or perhaps a driver issue. ?
I don't believe it's merely a preferences/print settings problem as i've gone pretty carefully through all the dialog boxes that seem relevant and have had no luck in solving the problem. Also, the text that's missing seems arbitraty - meaning, it's not merely hyperlinks or certain layers or text in specific type faces that won't print -it's content in the same text box, where other text does print, and it's blacks and colors and various point sizes - in short there are no easily discernable unifying circumstances among the text that does not print.
obvioulsy an easy work around is to just print to the other printer or use the older version of Acrobat, but my concern is more that other people may be experiencing the same issues with PDFs i send them. so if it is a problem in the way i'm generating PDFs (although, as i said, text is also missing from PDFs i have received from other people and printed) i'd like to fix it quickly, so that people trying to print my PDFs don't end up with critical content missing.
i'm on a 2008 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5, and using the Acrobat (X Pro v 10.1.4) that came with the CS6 Design & Web Premium package - although i'm looking at it online now and it's listed as Acrobat XI Pro..
any input you have would be much appreciated.
thank you,
bethany

Convert color PDF to Black in Acrobat 9

I have need that I have not been able to find an answer to. I have a fairly large color pdf (over 400 pages of drawings in color) and I would like to turn all the colors to black. Everything I have been able find in my research to do this has to do with converting a color PDF to black & white (grayscale), I do not want to use grayscale, I need the colors to be converted to black. Any color other than white I want to be black. I realize that you can print to black and white but that will not work for me because there are a couple of pages in the PDF that are color models that I will reinsert back in to the PDF after I have converted the PDF.
If anyone can help in this endeavor it would be greatly appreciated.

For Acrobat 9 Pro it is:
File > Export > PDF/A
Be well...

Cannot print color from pdf correctly

Hello ,
i have hp designjet roll 111 when print any thing form autocad i can print fine and good resolution
but when try to print form pdf i can print but the resolution for color not clear.
i am installed latest driver and update acrobat reader and change dpi
and also try print from another computer the result the same
please help me i am tried more
thanks..

Hello active-new,
Welcome to the HP Forums.
To get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since this is a commercial product. You can do this at Commercial Forums.
Thank you for your time.
Cheers,
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post to say “Thanks” for helping!
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
W a t e r b o y 71
I work on behalf of HP

Is there any way to "Print to PDF" from Acrobat?

In Windows, you can open a PDF in Acrobat and print it to a PDF. This isn't behavior isn't available in the Mac version—trying to use "Save as PDF" and "Save as Adobe PDF" both produce the following error message:
Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save.
Is there any way to print to a PDF from Acrobat Pro X on a Mac (running Snow Leopard)?
Note: There's a utility to being able to print from a PDF to PDF (which I why I suspect it's available in the Windows version), so "You're doing it wrong—just Click File > Save" would not be a very helpful response. I'm sure there are other uses for the functionality, but in my case in particular I need to split each page of a scanned PDF in which each page contains two pages of the original document. Printing to a PDF provides an easy way to do this, but I'm open to a more appropriate solution if it's available.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Adobe removed the ability to "refry" (make a PDF from a PDF) several versions ago.
what you need is to go to document and choose Remove (delete) pages (if it’s a duplicate Page)
You can also extract pages, add pages and so on. See this:
http://screencast.com/t/yn0bYTERp

I cannot print a PDF from Adobe Acrobat Pro or Adobe Reader with Mavericks!

I cannot print a PDF from Adobe Acrobat Pro or Adobe Reader. I tried on both MacBook Pros we have here, both now with Mavericks. Error message says "Opening printer connection failed. Unable to open printer connection . . . " This is after it says sending data, printing, shows the percentages etc., but then at the end I get the error message above. I can print a PDF (same one) from Preview, but not from Acrobat! What's going on? Never had this issue before Mavericks . . . Please help.

This is an open forum, not Adobe support... you need Adobe support to help
Adobe contact information - http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html
-Select your product and what you need help with
-Click on the blue box "Still need help? Contact us"

Is it possible to Print a PDF as a PDF in Acrobat 11.0.06 on Mac OSX 10.8.5?

Is it possible to Print a PDF as a PDF in Acrobat 11.0.06 on Mac OSX 10.8.5?
I need this functionality. Adobe PDF doesn't appear in the printer list as it did on my windows laptop. I need to be able to print to the PDF "size" of 8.5 by 11 to shrink files down for e-mail. My workflow usually goes like this: I import all the pictures or create a PDF from multiple files (pictures), I then put them in order and then print to PDF, two pictures to a page. I can take a 50MB file down to a 1MB file this way. Makes it easy to view on smartphones and the like.
Is this functionality still broken in Acrobat 11? Did I just waste my money? This was the only reason I bought the latest version - It wouldn't work on 9 Pro either.
Thanks,
Jon

Thanks Tony. That is exactly the functionality I am not getting from the current product on Mac.
You can get a much better looking result that takes up way less space and opens faster for the end user by printing a PDF as a PDF and controlling the size of the PDF image. I can take - for instance, 6 or 7 10MP pictures and create a PDF out of them. The PDF will be 25MB or so. I can print that as a PDF which will allow me to put two pictures per page - and that file will be about 1 MB. No crappy looking images, just much smaller size and multiple images per page.
It's a workflow I have used for years on PC. Everyone keeps saying just save it as a PDF using the Mac print "save as PDF" functionality but that doesn't accomplish the same thing and you can not control how many pages to print on to each new page of your PDF.
I find it misleading that I saw a web page on Adobe's site that shows you can print as a PDF and it says you can print as a PDF on Mac and that is NOT the case. Print to PDF Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac | Adobe Acrobat XI Infuriating.
I have tried to optimize a PDF with 6 or 7 images and it just doesn't do the same thing. It wont reduce the size as much as I need, cuts it in half - but not down to a small fraction for being an e-mail attachment. I'm using XI Pro. Researched this for about 3 hours and it is not functionality that can be used on a Mac.
I even tried printing as a PDF in Parallels on XP with another licensed version of Acrobat Pro and it still wont let you. You would have to probably dual boot your machine to get the functionality by running windows flat out on the Mac with a separate Licensed copy of the software.
It amazes me that Adobe can't figure this out or make amends with Apple to get the functionality back into Acrobat.

Printing problems (PDF files-HP Color Laserjet 1518ni: return the printer?

Hi everyone, I recently switched platforms and became a Mac user and had to buy a new
printer because my old HP deskjet is not compatible with my computer. So, I bought an HP
Color Laser printer, supposedly Mac compatible, but every time I try to print a PDF file it only
prints the first page. And then stops printing. I spent hours with the HP customer service, reinstalled
the driver, changed configurations, but it still does the same thing. The customer service representative could not solve the problem. I was wondering if there is any one else who had a similar issue with printing? Is it Mac OS X 10.5.5 that causes the problem? I am about to return the laser printer; it would be so helpful if I got some feedback. If it is a printer issue, then, which printer would you folks recommend that is not too expensive but efficient (I use the printer a lot and need an efficient one) and a printing speed of around 12-20ppm that actually does work with the Mac?
Thanks in advance!
Asli

Asli Igsiz wrote:
Thank you for calling my attention to the Adobe issue. I did try and print a PDF file with Preview and it worked! How was the issue solved with Adobe 7? Maybe Adobe pro7 also similar bug issues; is it to Adobe that I should be reporting this or to Apple?
Thanks again.
It's definitely an Adobe problem. The only solution I ever saw was either to print from Preview or to use later versions of Adobe Reader 8 or any version of Reader 9. I asked Adobe support what the problem was. I never got a reply.
You should know that Preview (and any other application which reads PDFs using Apple's PDF engine) has a problem with displaying Times Roman Italic, and only Times Roman Italic when launched under OS X 10.5.5. All other fonts appear to work normally; at least I haven't found one which has a problem, including other Times Roman font faces, including Times Roman Bold Italic. Preview seems to print properly, but the on-screen display has problems. The same files display properly with apps which don't use Apple's PDF engine, and also with apps which use Apple's PDF engine under versions of the OS earlier than 10.5.5, going back to at least 9.2.1. Apple is aware of the problem.
There seems to be at least two problems with the main PDF engines for OS X, Apple's and Adobe's.

Acrobat 8 Prints Color pdf as b/w--Why?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for