Printing pdf auto portrait/landscape setting

acrobat X print of PDFs no longer has auto portrait/landscape as default but only for 1 user on the laptop. does anyone know how to amend the default setting please

Hello Pelle,
Thanks for the feedback. Our printing code in Adobe Reader Touch doesn't have that capability right now, but since you mention it we should probably do what you're requesting by default. I'll put that into our backlog for a future update, but I can't say yet when it will be available.
In the interim, if you have pages that are different orientations, you can print them in blocks manually to get what you want, but I understand that's a hassle.
Dennis

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As the title says, pdf is fine on screen but when printing using auto portrait/landscape a black mark appears on the screen as in the photos below
when the orientation is selected the line disapears and the print works correctly
Anyone have any idea why this would happen?
Thanks
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Hello Pelle,
Thanks for the feedback. Our printing code in Adobe Reader Touch doesn't have that capability right now, but since you mention it we should probably do what you're requesting by default. I'll put that into our backlog for a future update, but I can't say yet when it will be available.
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Hello all,
My organization uses Adobe Reader 10.1.2. I am trying to figure out how to set up Adobe Reader to automatically select "Auto portrait/landscape" option in the printing screen when an item is printed from within Adobe Reader.
As of now, when I go to Print a file, it automatically selects "Portrait" (or whatever the default orientation is for the default printer). I would like for "Auto portrait/landscape" to come up as the default selected option when printing.
Can anyone help with this? Thank you in advance!

Hi,
Thanks for trying to help me out with this. To answer your question, yes I have checked the properties of my printer driver. The default printer is set to Portrait. When I try to print through Adobe Reader, the printing is automatically set to Portrait. which makes sense, except that I want it to be set to Auto Portrait/Landscape.
On some computers, Adobe Reader printing window is set to Auto Portrait/Landscape by default, so I know it can be done, but on others it is set to Portrait (the default option of the default printer). I am trying to find out why some computers are set to the Auto Portrait/Landscape option by default when printing in Adobe, while others are set to the default printer option.
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I too am looking into this issue for someone at my work and hoping someone can provide a resolution for this nuisance.
It is correct that that Auto Portrait/Landscape is usually set to default for Adobe Reader XI. One day, Portrait was randomly switched as the default setting. Granted the setting could be set back to Auto on a per file basis, this slowed down the time to mass print several landscape reports. The problem only occurred under one Windows account profile while other user accounts defaulted to Auto as expected. Uninstalling the software, clearing out all Adobe traces from Programs/Program Data/Application Data/Registry, and reinstalling the software did not make any difference. All printer preferences/configurations were the same amongst the different user accounts.
While it would sound like rebuilding that one person's profile would be the final solution, it wouldn't be ideal to reconfigure the several remote connections with banks and hospitals (we're an anesthesia billing company) on a new profile for what might be a simple, yet elusive fix to this print setting. I have noticed other posts on other sites mention this issue, but no resolutions have been provided yet. I'm sure part of what makes this difficult to resolve is the inability to replicate this issue elsewhere.

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When I print using Adobe Reader Touch, the "auto portrait/landscape" options does not show up. As a result, all pages in a document are printed in the same orientation even if they are not all of the same orientation in the file itself. I don't believe this is a printer issue because if I use Adobe Reader X (v. 10.1.6) on the same computer/printer, the auto option does show up and the documents print as desired. I use Windows 8. As the video quality of Adobe Reader X is extremely blurry in Windows 8, I would like to be able to use Adobe Reader Touch exclusively. How do I get the latter to give me the "auto portrait/landscape" option during printing?
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Pelle

Hello Pelle,
Thanks for the feedback. Our printing code in Adobe Reader Touch doesn't have that capability right now, but since you mention it we should probably do what you're requesting by default. I'll put that into our backlog for a future update, but I can't say yet when it will be available.
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I've looked around online and not been able to find any answers. So this might not be possible, but thought it worth checking on here.
I often print files as PDFs so I'd like to be able to do this using keyboard shortcuts. Pressing ⌘P brings up the print dialogue box, and pressing ⏎ then prints to a printer. Tabbing takes me through the various printing options, but doesn't take focus to the PDF menu at any point and I can't seem to set a working shortcut up to 'Save as PDF...'.
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