Problems
printing?
If you are using an earlier version of
Adobe Reader, the best way to solve problems you may be
having is to download and install the (free) latest version from
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Depending on which printer you are using,
a PDF file may not print
properly unless you select the "Print as
image" option in the printer dialog box. Using the "Print as image"
option may take several minutes to print one page. Please note that
some of the PDF
files available on this site require using the latest version of Adobe
Reader. |
- Adobe Systems Incorporated is the creator of the postscript
page description language which is widely used to do high quality printing.
- Adobe's "Acrobat" line of products is designed for
publishing documents on the Web. The core of that publishing system is the Portable
Document Format (PDF) developed by Adobe. The Immunization Action Coalition uses Adobe
page layout software, PageMaker and InDesign, to produce its newsletters and other documents. These
documents are then converted into PDF files and
placed on our website.
- In order to read a PDF file, you need to run, on your
computer, the Adobe Reader program which is
available
for free from Adobe. There are Adobe Reader versions for MS Windows, MS Windows NT,
OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix platforms.
Downloading tips
- Instead of immediately displaying the downloaded PDF file in
Adobe Reader, you may wish to save the file to disk first and then
open it in Adobe Reader. Doing so can avoid some bugs within Adobe
Reader that cause trouble when accessing the PDF file "directly"
from the Web. You can do this in Netscape by holding down the
SHIFT KEY when clicking on the PDF link. If you are using Internet
Explorer, RIGHT-CLICK the link and select "Save Target As..."
- Many of the PDF files on this site are quite large (more
than 100,000 bytes) and may therefore take several minutes to download, depending on the
speed of your modem and on how busy the server computer is.
Printing tips
- Large PDF documents require sufficient memory in your
printer in order to print correctly. For example, if your laser printer has only one MB of
total memory, reversed-text blocks may print as solid black with no message given by the
printer if the printer is set for high quality printing. This problem may be
satisfactorily solved by setting the printer resolution to a lower value, for example,
"medium" or 150 dots-per-inch.
- If you have insufficient printer memory, another solution is,
after downloading the entire file, to print a few pages at a time.
- If the PDF document does not print properly from Adobe
Reader, you may need to select the "Shrink to Fit" box (located in the lower
left corner of the print dialog box) in order to have Reader adjust the printout to
fit each page on a single sheet of paper.
- Trouble with the HP Laserjet printed output may be solved by
using the following settings (or similarly named ones):
- "Use raster Graphics" (instead of "Use
vector graphics"). This may fix the problem of "reversed" text
(white on black background) not printing, as well as other problems.
- "Download TrueType Fonts as bitmap soft fonts"
(select "bitmap" instead of "outline" or "graphics"). This may remove the overlapping of text on the printed document.
- "Graphics dithering" select "coarse" or
"fine" (instead of "none"). This selection may improve the
quality of images contained in the document.
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