PDF PRINTING IN BACKGROUND

Hi
I have a requirement to print the PDF document automatically "without user intervension" when loaded in the web browser.
I have tried the ORARRP plug-in but it's displaying the PDF before printing while i need the printing to be in background.
Best regards

No, sorry. If you find a way, it would probably be called a bug and
fixed in a future version.
Aandi Inston

Similar Messages

PDF Print, white background?

When I export my .indd doc to a PDF (Print) it looks great. But when I print it out, some text has a white background and my drop shadows turn white. This is resolved by exporting to PDF (Interactive) but I intend to print this doc and want it to be the highest quality!

InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Eliminating the White Box Effect

PDF printing out background placeholder text in fillable forms

I'm trying to print out a PDF which has fillable form fields. The Date of Birth text field has a faint grey placeholder text dd/mm/yyyy. Everytime those fields are filled in, the dd/mm/yyyy will also print out in the background. Is this an option that can be turned off or is it something to do with how the form was made?

Hi Daniel O'Toole,
Please help with the below listed information for further assistance on this.
1) Version of Acrobat/ Reader being used.
2) Os being used
3) Please attach a sample file to test.
Thanks,
Vikrantt Singh

PDF printing of web-pages WITH background?

How do I make it possible to have the background image/pattern/colour etc. of a web-page included when I "print" to PDF?
Whenever I print a web page with something in the background other than white it's missing in the PDF file. This happens in my daily-use browser (Seamonkey), but also in Safari. However, in iCab (http://www.icab.de/) the background is included in the PDF file, so at least it's possible in MacOS. I just can't find any settings for it.

Yes, this worked! Thanks!
Another neat trick I found is that you can save the different settings. Just go to the "presets" part of the print menu, then save the current setting. For example by naming it "PDF printing with background".
Then turn off the background colour/image/pattern and save it as a new preset (e.g. "Print (to paper)").
That way you don't need to waste lots of ink, but at the same time you'll get the complete web-page with background and all when you save it as a PDF file. Just remember to select the right preset before you "print".

Adobe pdf printer save dialog box opens in the background - progress bar shows Not Responding

I have two users who have Acrobat X Pro version 10.1.4 that are experiencing the same things. First, one person just changed laptops and the new one has a fresh Windows 7 Enterprise X64 image and new installation of Adobe Acrobat X Pro. When he used the pdf printer for the first time(after opening the program and accepting the license agreement) he was in MS Excel '07 and chose file>print>Adobe PDF and then the progress bar came up and then showed not responding. After he did this a couple of times with me standing there I noticed that the save dialog box was opening in the background because I could see the icon blinking on the taskbar. He said that his old computer never did this and that it would always open up and ask where to save the file and never show 'not responding' on the progress bar. The other person having the same issue is running the same version but she has had the program installed on her machine for a few months and an older version on before that.
Is there a way to make the dialog box show as soon as you print to the Adobe PDF printer? What is causing this? Is there another way to create a pdf from MS Office like the add-on?

I have two users who have Acrobat X Pro version 10.1.4 that are experiencing the same things. First, one person just changed laptops and the new one has a fresh Windows 7 Enterprise X64 image and new installation of Adobe Acrobat X Pro. When he used the pdf printer for the first time(after opening the program and accepting the license agreement) he was in MS Excel '07 and chose file>print>Adobe PDF and then the progress bar came up and then showed not responding. After he did this a couple of times with me standing there I noticed that the save dialog box was opening in the background because I could see the icon blinking on the taskbar. He said that his old computer never did this and that it would always open up and ask where to save the file and never show 'not responding' on the progress bar. The other person having the same issue is running the same version but she has had the program installed on her machine for a few months and an older version on before that.
Is there a way to make the dialog box show as soon as you print to the Adobe PDF printer? What is causing this? Is there another way to create a pdf from MS Office like the add-on?

PDF Printer and Acrobat fail to open or run or anything else.

Hi
Adobe Acrobat Standard 9 has been installed on this TS2008 (VM) server for over a year without problem until recently.
To start, the Adobe PDF printer stopped creating PDFs. When it worked a user would print and the PDF (creation) progress bar dialog box would open and the Adobe Distiller icon would appear in the taskbar (swirling) and a PDF would be created. Now we get the progress bar but no Distiller icon and no PDF is created.
Then Adobe Acrobat Standard (editor) failed to open any PDFs. We installed Adobe Acrobat 9 reader which opened PDFs for a while and now that has stopped working.
After many uninstalls, reinstalls, reg cleans we decided to open a case with Adobe who told us that Acrobat 9 is not supported on Server2008. The customer purchased Adobe Acrobat X.
We installed Acrobat X (in terminal server mode) and all was well for around 24hrs and then it all stopped working again.
I have since uninstalled reinstalled again. I created 1 PDF and after that the progress bar just hangs. We performed a controlled user logon to the server and all was going well until one user logged in and he isnt able to open Acrobat to read or edit PDFs.
There are no events logs which appear to directly relate to this. We were concerned about a HpBIDI driver which no longer errors but we do have a large amount of EventID 7036, ServerControl Manager Eventlog provider and EventID 4 SpoolerWin32SPL.
We have since been back to Adobe Support who advised us to unplug the network cable which we cannot do as its a hosted VM (with no access to the the VM console). He then asked us to remove the server from the Domain which we can't do as this is a single live server. They intend to come back to me!
We are really at a loss here for idea's, can anyone please provide some clues?
Thanks

Hi billu54860732,
Try running the Repair command from under the Help menu to see if it corrects the problem.
The probable cause of the error is, multiple processes of Acrobat/Reader running in the background.
If 'Repair' doesn't resolve the issue kindly follow the steps mentioned below and check, if it helps.
1) Press CTRL+ALT+DEL together
2) Go to the Task Manager
3) Go to Processes in the Task Manager and kill al the processes related to Acrobat/Reader.
4) Launch Reader/Acrobat (It should launch without an error).
To further isolate the issue you might want to run Acrobat/Reader in an environment where no other services are running.
This can be achieved via "MSCONFIG"
1) Click on start type run
2) Type MSCONFIG in the run prompt
3) Go to services and click on hide all Microsoft services
4) Click disable all
5) Go to the startup in configuration window and disable all startup items
6) Restart your system
7) Launch Acrobat/Reader
If, it is launched without an error, a service on your system is conflicting with Acrobat/Reader.
Let me know if issue persist.
Regards,
Aadesh

PDF Printer not saving files; 9.5.5 (pro) with Windows 7, 64 bit

I imagine that the root of this issue has to do with compatibility between the OS 64 and and 32 bit application of Acrobat 9.5.5. The installation has been uninstalled, reinstalled, and fully repaired. Initially, while printing from powerpoint (but also any other source, including chrome, firefox, or from acrobat's own interface), the PDF printer would output a generic error about the "current printer setup". After reveiwing the event log, a sidebyside 40 seemed to be causing the problem. I followed the solution posted at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a4c36078-6419-4424-8a43-ff3832786 b59/many-sidebyside-78-errors-with-acrobat-9-designer, but with no luck. I then went and installed the PDF printer manually using the adobePDF.inf file. This removed the generic error, but now when converting using the PDF Printer, no file is saved and no error dialog appears. Nothing is showing in the event viewer either. Print-to-pdf works, but the user needs specific formatting that occurs while printing. Any ideas what may be occuring?
Running 9.5.5 Adobe Pro on a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system.

Let's step back a bit. First, since you have apparently been successful at installing the printer let us see if it works. Open and application and go to the print menu and select Print-to-file for the Adobe PDF printer. Assuming that is successful, open the file that is created (usually a PRN extension, though it is a PS file) in Distiller. Do you get a PDF now, or errors about the creation?
If the PDF is created, use ctrl-alt-del>task manager to see if Acrotray is running in the background. If not, go to the Acrobat (or Distiller) folder and start it. If you can not start it then Acrotray is the problem that you are having. It might be that it will work if installed in a 32-bit compatibility mode.

PDF Printing and preserving Control Breaks

I'm testing PDF printing with apache FOP. it works, but I've searched on here and am not finding a solution to preserve control breaks. Is there an easy way to set this up? I'm trying to replace reports with Apex, and one of my developer. we wrote these custom reports, that work very nicely, but are tedious... user has ability to control break, etc. I can achieve all this from interactive reports, but printing is the problem.
My thought if I can do this, is to generate the report on a printer friendly page, and just print from there.
any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Scott

I am having trouble, too, getting PDF reporting to users in a way that they're satisfied with.
1. Example of vanilla PDF without BI publisher.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5IT1IH9Rb7NNzM2MjgyODQtOTEzMC00NDJiLTg4MzgtOTExYmQ2OTJlODA1&hl=en&authkey=CNKg9bkD
I have not found a way to change the margins or other column settings. So the reports will have minimal utility for our users, who are auditors and who like to save their analyses.
I welcom help on how to use and override the Print Attributes > Page Attributes settings for PDF? Paper Size , Orientation, and width/height seem to work, but have no impact on the actual body printing. E.g. setting tabloid landscape 17x11 " works, but the report is still the same size as with letter landscape 11x8.5 setting. There's no way to set the margin.
2. Example of my best work around. Here, the user prints from browser - Google Chrome - to PDF. I use free Windows PDF utility Bullzip PDF Printer. The same look and feel goes to a physical paper printer.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B5IT1IH9Rb7NMDBhM2NiOTEtZmUwOC00NDY2LWFmOGYtYjJiMTVkZjgyZmQy&hl=en&authkey=CPm818sC
Chrome however does not now have the option to print the background colors, so you can't get your tabs and other graphic elements to look identical to on-screen pages. You have to adjust the row count on the Apex page so all rows are displayed - if you do, the browser will print multiple pages until all rows have been put into the pdf. Another advantage for the users is that they can choose to display all the filter and grouping selections on screen and capture them in the PDF output, similar to what we do in one of our Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports applications.
Other browsers (Internet Explorer and Firefox) seem not to be able to print all the rows.
Skip

Adobe PDF Printing - no file is created

Hi there,
We have Adobe CS6 installed on our network, which includes Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
Our clients are Windows 7 64-bit.
We are experiencing a problem when it comes to printing to PDF. e.g. using notepad or Microsoft Word, when selecting "File >> Print" and "Adobe PDF"
We are presented with the "Save PDF File As" prompt, and at this point you can see the document appear in the Adobe PDF print queue with the status "Spooling". However once we've chosen the file name and location, and chosen "Save" no file is created. The job disappears from the print queue.
We have tried a number of fixes based on other forum posts, such as choosing the print driver (AdobePDF.inf) again from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Xtras\AdobePDF and repairing the Adobe Acrobat X Pro installation.....but to no avail.
We are able to create PDFs within the Adobe Acrobat X Pro progam without any problems.
I suspect from what someone else has written, this might have something to do with acrotray.exe but I'm not sure how to diagnose/fix this.
We would greatly appreciate some further advice!
Thanks!!

The print process for PDFs as you have described is to create a PS file and then activate Distiller in the background to complete the process. A necessarily background application for this process is AcroTray that I suspect someone has removed. To check the process at the base level, use these steps:
1. use print-to-file and save the file someplace you can find
2. open the file in Distiller (it should be a PS file, but with a PRN extension or type)
3. You should get a PDF
If the conversion fails in Distiller, you will get errors on the screen -- typically related to graphics or fonts that you are trying to use or embed. You may find that .log files have already been created when you said you got no PDF. If that is the case, the log-file will let you know what the problem is (if you can figure out what is said -- or post here).
So there are 2 common problems: 1. that errors occurred and are recorded in the log file or 2. AcroTray is not active.

Reader 9 Acrobat PDF Printer Driver Continuously Installs

Since I have installed Reader 9, the Acrobat PDF Printer Driver Continuously Installs in the background degrading system performance. Does anyone else have this problem? It auto created a System Restore point, so check that. I am running XP with all patches applies.

Hi Mike,
I have exactly the same problem that you describe. At first I thought it might be malicious software that was installing a fake driver, but after running Malware, Spybot and some other programs, I'm still left with the problem. I have a lot of Adobe software installed (Adobe Premiere Elements 7, Adobe Acrobat Pro 8, Adobe Audition 3, Adobe PhotoShop 7 and of course Adobe Reader 9, plus as you indicate Adobe Air and Acrobat.com I'm not sure when my problem started, since I only recognized it when I went to do a system restore. It appears to install the driver about once a minute. This leaves me with about 3 days worth of useless restore points.
The only advice that I have received is to un-install all my Adobe stuff, then check the System Restore, then one by one re-install the packages checking each time what happens in the system restore.
Have you found any solution since your original post?
Dave Freeman
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada

Cannot print directly to the Adobe PDF printer

Hi. I cannot print directly to the Adobe PDF printer since receiving my new computer. I use Acrobat 9 (updated to the latest patch today) on a 64-bit Win 7 computer. A colleague has the same set up and she can print to the Adobe PDF printer without any issues. Fyi, I have tried printing from Word, my email program, & webpages with the same result, which is that the document goes into the printing queue and then the process just stops. This wasn't an issue on my previous computer running the same Acrobat version but under Win XP.
I have updated to the latest patch, and I have tried a repair installation of Acrobat with no affect. What am I missing?
Thanks.

Please check that when you print to PDF, the Save as dialog might goes in background. Watch for blinking icon in the taskbar at the bottom. Click the icon and give output PDF name.
If this is the case then this is known problem at MS end. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2567869
This problem comes when printing from 32bit apps on 64bit OS.

Virtual PDF-printer in Photoshop

Hello,
I'm not able to 'print' PFD's in Photoshop CS4 on my mac. I think there's no virtual PDF-printer installed. I can't find a way to add it.
* Can I add a virtual printer on my mac, that's compatable with photoshop?
* Is there some software to print it with?
* Is there an other way to make PFD (not just by save as PDF) in Photoshop?
Thanks a lot!
Fransiscus

Fransiscus, jere are the two links I read in order to create a virtual PDF printer under OS X 10.6.1 on my MacBook Pro:
   CUPS_PDF Package for Mac OS X
   http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx
   A Virtual Printer for OS X
   http://www.windley.com/archives/2009/09/avirtual_printer_for_osx.shtml
There's some extended background discussion here:
   CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
   http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007082812233971
...ben

Acrobat 8.1.6 and Word 2007 - PDF printing problem

I have a weird problem with printing a word 2007 document to the Adobe PDF printer (distiller). I hope someone can help with this.
My two-page Word document has a background color, text, text boxes and two imported images (both under 500kb). Now, the problem is two-fold:
If the 'print background color' option is disabled (unchecked), the PDF looks okay, but the background color vanishes as does text within text boxes (the text boxes themselves appear fine).
If the 'print background color' option is enabled, the PDF shows only the background color, but no text!
In either case, the PDF generation takes an unusually long time.
I tried to follow the advices given in other threads, and looked for the presence of Acrotray.exe (it was present during the process). I also tried printing the document to a file (.prn), renaming the extension to .ps, and double-clicking it to send the job to distiller - every time with the same result.
I must mention that if I use Word 2007's own 'Save to PDF' feature, it generates a clean PDF without any problem. It is only the Acrobat Distiller that is giving me endless grief. Can someone knowledgeable please help me with this issue?

I have an update. This is even weirder. It turns out that after I generate the PDF and only the background color shows up, I can use the Touch Up Object tool to select the entire page (by clicking anywhere in the colored area), and press 'delete'. If I do this, parts of the background color gets deleted, revealing the text underneath - including the background color!!!!! And doing this repeatedly, I can remove this strange 'overshadow' and find everything (image, text, text box) intact underneath. I can do the same to the text box, and eventually, the missing text appears there.
I, of course, have to do this for every single page!
In summary, it is almost as if my text and images are being covered by a sheet with the same color as the background, which I am then removing part by part - with each stroke of the delete key - much like opening a . Strangely, this happens for each page except the last page (which prints fine - with images and texts etc.)
Does anyone have a clue about this?
Update: I hadn't seen the replies from Bill and Lori when I posted this. Thank you both for replying! I do think that the problem is with transparency, given what I found out just now (written here). However, I have tried different PDF settings, standard and high quality (this is the one I normally use), and yet I have had the same issue!
Message updated by: kausikdatta

Display form & simultaneously PRINT in background

We have a custom application, where a program is used to generate an adobe print form designed for some legal purposes. When we execute the program, the form gets displayed, after which the user prints it. Can this print function be made automatic without any user intervention? That is, when the program is executed, the legal form is displayed on screen, and also the form gets printed in background?
We have done quite a few reports, spool_2_pdf and then e-mailing the PDF. But I believe the requirement above is different.
I have searched and read the different posts, and did not find anything to my requirement described above, so please excuse me and help me out if I have missed reading something.
Thank you,

Hello
Frontend printing from a batch process cannot work, as there is no GUI connection.
Kindly refer to SAP note -
519059 - FAQ: Background processing system
Regards.

Adornment PDF(Print) issue?

Hi
I've developed a plugin just like sdk sample plugin "framelabel". I've added one label adornment to kDrawablePageItemsBoss. It works fine when I export it to pdf as interactive, jpeg...
But my adornment is not exported if I select pdf(print). But the sample plugin framelabel works fine with print too.
Could any one please suggest wats my mistake?
FYI
InDesign CS5.5 (Release)
Win 7
many thanks
~Ays.Hakkim

Thanks Roddy. Yes my plugin is a kUIPlugin. I'll split and try it as model & ui.
it won't be copied to the background thread and your adornment won't be drawn.
I hope u mean it wont draw on PDF. Becoz adornment draws fine in indesign page UI.

PDF PRINTING IN BACKGROUND

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for