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How to print PDF pages double-sided or duplex in Acrobat or Adobe Reader X (not 10.1.2 or later).
http://adobe.ly/yMEfay

The print dialog that appears with Adobe Acrobat 10.1.1 does not match this video in crucial ways and has no Properties tab for the printer. This means that one has to use the OS printer setup dialog box to invoke duplexing, and the result for me (before I realized and hit cancel) was a document printing the first 400-odd pages of 700-odd pages 3 times, and never printing the end of the document - that's a lot of unnecessary printing, and a big problem. There are no printer preferences to set/choose, so can someone please a) explain why the print dialog shown here does not match the one in the program (Mac) and tell me how to duplex using the actual tools available in the program? Thanks very much

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