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Lock printer settings

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2009-12-07 12:43:46
ellen.carroll
Registered: Dec 7 2009
Posts: 1

I would like to lock the print option settings on a PDF file. I want to make it so the "fit to page" and "shrink to fit" options are not selectable. People keep printing our maps with these options on and the scale becomes incorrect.

Any ideas?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.6, Windows
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2009-12-07 13:53:32
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UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
You can't. Nothing a document says can restrict what the print dialog window does, as (although you can have a good guess) the document can't predict what paper size the user will be trying to ram through their printer.

You could add a button to the document that calls the Javascript version of the print command, and using that you can [i]select[/i] the page handling mode, but you can't stop them changing it nor can you permanently lock it.

This code on a button would print the document at no scaling (though you'll still get the dialog box as the user has to select which printer to send the job to):
var pp = this.getPrintParams();pp.pageHandling = pp.constants.handling.none;this.print(pp);
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