Re: Printing multiple copies from Acrobat 3

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

The first question is:  Do you have this problem if you print from other
applications.  I expect that you do.  In which case, there "should" be (may
be) a setting in your print driver to Collate Copies.  

If Collate Copies is on, then you should get what you want; complete books.

It is my understanding, however, that Collation requires more memory than
non-Collation.  If you have a printer with only minimal memory installed and
if it gives you an error message, simply stops, or otherwise does not do what
you want, then you can't get there from here using this approach.

There is another approach, if you are on a network.  What we do is to print
such files to PS files (on the PC).  (It is usually MUCH too slow to print to
PS files directly to a drive on the network -- and you risk running out of
disk space on the network drive if you don't know how big you expect your PS
file(s) to be.)  Then copy them to a network drive that has space.  (PS files
are big, so make sure you have the space to put them on the network drive
before you do it -- sysadmin's get really ticked off when they start to see
"disk full" messages on their console.)  Then, using what ever is the
appropriate command for your network and printer, you simply send the files to
the printer: file 1, file 1, file 2, file 2.

Actually, what we really do is to make multiple PS files for each book.  Say a
book has 400 pages; we will make 10 PS files.  Then we write an extremely
simple script that sends the files one after the other -- this way, the
printer has already received, and is printing, the first file before the
transmission of the second file is complete, to say nothing about the tenth
file.  Then, if we need 5x of book #1 and 3x of book # 2 and 6x of book #3, we
simply execute the scripts 5x#1, 3x#2, and 6x#3 (actually, we make a script
that does that -- to save on typing.)  All in all, if it were not for having
to keep the printer paper fed/removed (why do printers with 2500 sheets in
only have space for 500 sheets out?), I could go to lunch.

I hope that this helps.

Jay


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Burel, Mark (IndSys,Pwr Mgt,MAR) wrote:
> 
> Hello Framers,
> Is there a way that Acrobat can be configured, or a utility added, to print
> multiple copies of a book in PDF format so that the whole book prints before
> the next one starts.
> Right now, if more than one copy is selected,  each page is printed a number
> of times and the books then have to be manually collated.
> We use Frame 5.5.6 on Windows 95 and print from Acrobat 3.01
> Thanks,
> Mark Burel
> mark.burel@indsys.ge.com
>

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