Re-using Print Settings

I need to print a PDF with variable page sizes and using Duplex.  I see I can select these things in the UI when I go to print, but we are printing programmatically, and we need these settings to be "saved"/persisted, or an argument to be able to send to the command line (called programmatically from code) to assure we print the variable page sizes and duplex all the time with no user intervention.
I've searched for ideas and see where I can setup "Print Dialog Presets", but that is grayed out.  Is that because of my version of Adobe?

The page size options are limited, but are in the crop tool. If there are no tags or other markup, you can also print to a new PDF and adjust the size in the printer interface -- sometimes the simplest method, but not normally recommended. The rotation can be done in the document menu and then saved. The rotation that is typically on the toolbar are only for the current view and does not save with the PDF. Many of these you can use a batch process to resolve (in AA8 that is under the Advanced>Document Processing). The better method is to setup your Adobe PDF printer to create the correct page size and orientation in the future. You can setup to typically expand to fit, select a paper size, and have the settings set to auto-rotate. The later is based on the text that is found on the page. The margin elimination is also part of the crop tool. Hopefully this at least gives you some things to look at. Unfortunately, the tools get moved around with every version, so you may have to search for the tools.

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