I'm trying to print a service manual which is in PDF form. The pages are a mix of ordinary single A4 pages, some double A4 width pages (A3, if you like!), and some pages three A4 pages wide (e.g. circuit diagrams).
I need to print the double and triple pages as individual A4 pages so that I can splice them together afterwards. The problem is that there is absolutely no way of printing the right-hand side of these pages directly from the PDF reader. I use the Foxit reader, but Acrobat has the same problem. I can print the left-hand side, and by turning on centring I can print the centre section, but that's it.
I would have tried the image-select facility of the reader, and pasted and printed from an image program, but the PDF is password protected and won't allow this. I have imported the PDF file into Irfanview and printed from there, which does work, but for some reason the print comes out very poorly. Printing in 'black-and-white' produces very poor definition. Printing in 'greyscale' the definition is OK, but a lot of the fine lines (wiring etc) disappear ( I tried adjusting the levels to improve contrast, without improvement).
The areas I CAN print directly from the PDF reader come out perfectly, so I think what I really need is some way of offsetting the page so that I can print the inaccessible right-hand sections from the reader. Does anyone know of any method (an add-in for example) that would enable me to do this?
Steve.
I need to print the double and triple pages as individual A4 pages so that I can splice them together afterwards. The problem is that there is absolutely no way of printing the right-hand side of these pages directly from the PDF reader. I use the Foxit reader, but Acrobat has the same problem. I can print the left-hand side, and by turning on centring I can print the centre section, but that's it.
I would have tried the image-select facility of the reader, and pasted and printed from an image program, but the PDF is password protected and won't allow this. I have imported the PDF file into Irfanview and printed from there, which does work, but for some reason the print comes out very poorly. Printing in 'black-and-white' produces very poor definition. Printing in 'greyscale' the definition is OK, but a lot of the fine lines (wiring etc) disappear ( I tried adjusting the levels to improve contrast, without improvement).
The areas I CAN print directly from the PDF reader come out perfectly, so I think what I really need is some way of offsetting the page so that I can print the inaccessible right-hand sections from the reader. Does anyone know of any method (an add-in for example) that would enable me to do this?
Steve.