I have some PDF's which, when I double-click to open, automatically bring up the Print dialog box in Adobe Reader X. I'm on Windows XP. I think this is because of some code within the PDF itself. Is there some way I can disable such automatic printing from Adobe Reader?
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- In Acrobat it's easily done: Just add a button and as it's MouseUp action select 'Execute a menu item', and then File - Print. Not sure about FormsCentral.
- In case, Adobe reader is prompting to save a file when you click on print, then click Advanced print dialog and uncheck Print to file option. Note: Make sure have selected a physical printer to print upon and not Adobe PDFXPS/Send note or any other virtual printer.
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If it's happening only with some specific files then it's probably because:
You can tie Acrobat JavaScript code to a specific PDF document, a page, field, or button within that document, or a field or button within the PDF file, and even to a user action
You can disable javascript in Adobe Reader:
- Open
Edit->Preferences - Click on
Javascripton the left-hand pane - Uncheck
Enable Acrobat Javascripton the right-hand pane
Open in Adobe Acrobat. Goto tools > Javascript > choose 'Document Javascripts'.Then a dialog box pops up. There will be this.print() code with a corresponding script name (0 in my case). Just press delete botton in the dialog box and save.
Try to re-create (or re-print) the PDF file using PDFCreator.
Simon SheehanThese didn't work for me, however, using Tool > Protection > Remove Hidden Information and selecting the item with Javascript to remove did work.
Open the Document Properties in Adobe Acrobat (Ctrl+D) and make sure that no toolbars or window controls are hidden in the tab Initial View.
Adobe Reader Print In Color
The easiest way to solve this is to simply print the file to another PDF file, and name it something slightly different than the original. That will remove the printing prompt from automatically opening.
With a PDF this same problem had been happening to for me, I was able to make the necessary alterations without Acrobat.I opened the the PDF in a text editor.As noted by Kazark there was a line with 'this.print()'.I simply deleted the line, and that fixed the problem.