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Disabling the Print option in the File menu of Acrobat Reader

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2007-05-24 12:14:41
sz4zkk
Registered: May 23 2007
Posts: 26
Answered

I am using Life Cycle Designer and would like to force a user to use the Print button on the form, instead of printing it through the Acrobat Reader file menu, due to some validation that I am performing on the form prior to printing.

Can I Disable the file menu print through script?

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2007-05-28 01:27:44
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Accepted Answer
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Can I Disable the file menu print through script?
No, you can't.

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2010-12-15 10:51:48
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nettie65
Registered: Dec 15 2010
Posts: 7
Have you found an answer yet? I'm looking to do the same thing.
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2010-12-15 11:07:46
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
It's still 'impossible' to remove the print function from the menu.
You possibly can hide it using a folder level script, but thiis folder level script has to be installed on each client that can open the form.
Also, you still can't prevent that users using ctrl + p.

Please check out this sample here.
It describes how to prevent the printing if the validation of the form fails.
http://forms.stefcameron.com/2008/04/13/prevent-printing-pdf-forms-in-acrobat-8/

radzmar
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2010-12-16 00:10:53
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DaveyB
Registered: Dec 10 2010
Posts: 70
Merlin and Radzmar are correct, you can't stop the user from using external methods to print the document under normal circumstances.

I did some research on this one, since I had a similar problem where long-in-the-tooth users used file-print instead of the on-form button to print forms, and found a solution from our old friend Stefan Cameron which people may find useful - it worked for me! My users hit file-print and it still fires off the validation script through the prePrint event quite happily (I admit I didn't try ctrl-p though!).Hope that helps someone else :)

DaveyB

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