topic Printing PDF Files in Operating System - OpenVMS

Printing PDF Files

L. Webb — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:19:16 GMT

I am attempting to print 3 pages from a PDF file that is very large (182pgs)but I do not see any printing options available to me other than printing the whole file. What to do?

Re: Printing PDF Files

labadie_1 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:30:21 GMT

print/page=(2,4) file
should do the trick

Re: Printing PDF Files

L. Webb — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:40:45 GMT

Thanks!

Re: Printing PDF Files

Robert Gezelter — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:01:06 GMT

L,

I suspect (from your other posting) that you are asking about a Windows system.

In that case, you need to use Adobe's Acrobat Reader (available from http://www.adobe.com ). Open the document, select PRINT from the menu. The PRINT function screen allows ranges of pages to be selected.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Re: Printing PDF Files

Peter Zeiszler — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:59:34 GMT

I have never printed pdf files from VMS. Is that possible? What are you using to print?

I have had PS files I have had to convert to PDF for viewability. I normally pull those to a windows machine and manage there.

Re: Printing PDF Files

Hoff — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:24:47 GMT

I tend to use xpdf when working with PDF files directly on OpenVMS. There are various ports around on the OpenVMS Freeware, and elsewhere. Printing is kludgy, but it works.

There's a Java PDF viewer around too, but it's, um, rather resource-intensive.