Want to Print Multiple Size Pages In One File From Adobe Acrobat

I posted this originally in Adobe.Acrobat.Windows and no one there
could help me. So forgive the repost here.

I have several files (each 1000-plus pages) with mixed letter and
tabloid pages. Is there a way to identify only tabloid pages so I can
print them for later insertion into the finished document?

I am using Acrobat XI under Win 10, with a Brother MFC-6490CW printer
which has both a letter and a tabloid tray. The default paper size is
letter.

When trying to print using Autoselect for the paper source it doesn't
seem to work. I get the tabloid prints split onto multiple sheets of
letter paper.

Thanks.

On 3/4/2017 11:54 AM, Elias wrote:
I posted this originally in Adobe.Acrobat.Windows and no one there
could help me. So forgive the repost here.

I have several files (each 1000-plus pages) with mixed letter and
tabloid pages. Is there a way to identify only tabloid pages so I can
print them for later insertion into the finished document?

I am using Acrobat XI under Win 10, with a Brother MFC-6490CW printer
which has both a letter and a tabloid tray. The default paper size is
letter.

When trying to print using Autoselect for the paper source it doesn't
seem to work. I get the tabloid prints split onto multiple sheets of
letter paper.

Thanks.

Does auto-select for that printer work with any apps under Win10? Are
both the printer default _and_ the print options set for auto-select?

--
best regards,

Neil

Elias wrote:
I posted this originally in Adobe.Acrobat.Windows and no one there
could help me. So forgive the repost here.

I have several files (each 1000-plus pages) with mixed letter and
tabloid pages. Is there a way to identify only tabloid pages so I can
print them for later insertion into the finished document?

I am using Acrobat XI under Win 10, with a Brother MFC-6490CW printer
which has both a letter and a tabloid tray. The default paper size is
letter.

When trying to print using Autoselect for the paper source it doesn't
seem to work. I get the tabloid prints split onto multiple sheets of
letter paper.

Thanks.

I'm doing this on a 32 bit Windows. Salt to taste.

https://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

Ghostscript 9.20 for Windows (32 bit) Ghostscript AGPL Release
(gs920w32.exe)

Install.

Copy the contents of C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.20\bin
to C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.20\lib

There should be four files copied. I like to work in
the lib folder, and copy my input there too.

Copy the input.pdf document into C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.20\lib

In a Command Prompt window (as regular user):

cd /d C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.20\lib

gswin32c -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o L:\%04d.pdf input.pdf

The "%04d" is a printf shorthand for "0274", in other
words, a counting number with a leading zero as a file name.

0001.pdf 0002.pdf 0003.pdf ...

Now, use Irfanview, to review the folder full of separate pages.

In InfanView, "Thumbnail", "Sort by Portrait/Landscape", "Copy selected file"
Put the files in another folder.

I'm stuck at this point. On the one hand, I have

https://mupdf.com/downloads/mupdf-1.10a-windows.zip

mutool merge -o L:\final.pdf 0001.pdf 0277.pdf 0278.pdf

but the tool will not accept wildcards. I cannot do this.

mutool merge -o L:\final.pdf *.pdf

Maybe you can just print a folder full of single page
PDFs as is ? And not bother combining them ? It would
depend on whether your print capability always slaps on
a "cover page" as to how wasteful this is.

To correct for the lack of wildcard, scripting allows
storing all the filenames into a variable. But that's
too much work for me, unless absolutely necessary :-)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...a-variable-usi

HTH,
Paul

Neil and Paul,

Thanks for your suggestions. But I couldn't get either one to work.
So I'm going back to the kludge of checking each page for 11x17
(ledger) and printing those out one by one. The hard way and tedious,
to be sure. But I'll get what I need.

Thanks again.