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print a specified range

2009-06-15 18:53:07

inosent

Registered: Jun 13 2009

Posts: 10

i have a pdf doc

i need to print out only particular sections

pages 1-2, 4,7,9,12-33

that sort of thing

is there javascript to do this?

2009-06-16 00:07:19

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2399

Yes. this.print() can be used for that. You just need to call it several times if you want to call multiple ranges (you specify a range with the nStard and nEnd parameters). Another option it to first extract the pages you want into a new file, print it, and then close it without saving.

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2009-06-16 06:22:12

inosent

Registered: Jun 13 2009

Posts: 10

are thee any code examples somewhere? thanks for the reply

2009-06-16 08:29:13

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4308

There are examples in the [url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]Acrobat JavaScirpt Dcoumentation[/url]

[url=http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9/Acrobat9_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJSPreface.87.1.php&accessible=true]Doc print[/url]

George Kaiser