Indesign and Interactive Presentations

Hi there,
I have two questions regarding Interactive Pdfs created from InDesign.
Question 1.
I have aprox 200pages. It's devided in diffrent sections.
Is there a way to ad a button/illustration as "print" that allows me to put a preset on wich pages that should be printed?
Meaning hitting the "print" button on a specific page allows me to either set it to only that page or the whole section. 8-26 or 49-99 for example.
Question 2.
As a interactive presentation i also have a question regarding "speakers support" not sure if it's the right word.
But that allows the one holding the presentation to have as in PPT on his laptop a note section that are not shown on the big screen.
Best Regards
Petter Brink

1. You'd have to add the print button in Acrobat and I think there's some Javascript code you can input to ask what what page range. Something along the lines of this http://acrobatusers.com/forum/javascript/javascript-print-button-range-works-full-document -prints/
I don't know though as I'm not a scripter. Try the Acrobat Scripting forum.
2. I don't there is a way to do this.

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