Printing of Preview pdf Files

September 7, 2006
When using Preview, pdf documents that have multiple pages, some being portrait and some being landscape there are four problems that I do not know how to work around, Any suggestions would be appreciated.
1. Preview does not print the full page for the portrait pages when portrait is selected.
Q1. How can I prevent Preview from truncating a portion of the left side of the page?
2. Preview does not print the full page for the landscape pages when landscape is selected.
Q2. How can I prevent Preview from truncating a small portion of the bottom of the page?
3. Preview does not automatically select either portrait or landscape for a doucment that has both typtes of pages.
Q3. How can I configure Preview to automatically select the portrait or landscape mode as appropriate for each page?
4. Adobe Reader has features that automatically take care of all three of these problems.
Q4. How can I configure Preview to do the same?
Q5. If this is impossible I will have to move back to Adobe Reader, but then I ask the question why Apple provides Preview at all?
Thanks for your help and guidance on this subject.

This has come up previously, and it's a limitation of the printing system that Preview can't handle documents with mixed orientation. The solution, until Apple addresses this, is to print out the different orientations as separate jobs. Going back to Acrobat is probably a better solution.

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