Print Production
Print Production
5
T
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5.1
PrintParams Properties
Property
Description
Prints pages in reverse order
Labels each page of tiled output
Output marks to cut the page and where overlap
occurs
The number of points that tiled pages have in
common
The amount that tiled pages are scaled
The degree to which high level drawing operators are
preserved
Determines whether the printer Color Rendering
Dictionary is used
Determines whether Type 1 fonts will be converted
reversePages
tileLabel
tileMark
tileOverlap
tileScale
transparencyLevel
userPrinterCRD
useT1Conversion
In addition to the
printParams
object’s properties, the
app
object’s
printColorProfiles
and
printerNames
properties provide a list of available color
spaces and printer names, respectively. Also, the
field
object’s
print
method can be
used to determine whether an individual field will be printed.
Printing PDF Documents
It is possible to use Acrobat JavaScript to specify whether a PDF document is sent to a
printer or to a PostScript file. In either case, to print a PDF document, invoke the
doc
object’s
print
method. Its parameters are described below in
Table 5.2:
T
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5.2
Print Method Parameters
Parameter
Description
Determines whether to present a user interface to the
user
The zero-based index of the beginning page
The zero-based index of the last page
Suppresses the
Cancel
dialog box while the document
is printed
Determines whether the page is shrunk to fit the
imageable area of the printed page
bUI
nStart
nEnd
bSilent
bShrinkToFit
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