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Our company has drawings in PDF format (these are process diagrams of our plants). They are normally viewed through the intranet using Internet Explorer. Most users viewing the drawings using Acrobat Reader. Because of the complexity of the drawings users would like to be able to print only portions of the drawing, preferably the current view (i.e. zoom to a section of the drawing and print). I'm pretty sure that Acrobat does not support any mechanism to support this short of opening the drawing in a nonReader version, cropping the page and printing the cropped portion. (which won't work in our case) So, here is my multipart question. 1. Is there a Reader based plugin that does this function? If not the current view, then something like letting the user draw a bounding box around the area they want to print and printing only that portion? 2. If not, can anybody comment as to whether such a plugin could be built? Any thoughts as to whether Adobe would sanction this as Reader plugin? 3. An alternative idea I had was to create a Javascript function to use the printer entry point for PageWillPrint to put in Postscript could to change the CTM to scale and translate the document, but that would entail knowing what the coords of a user selection (or the currently viewed section of the page) are. I don't know how to get that information. Has anybody done this or knows of a way of doing this using Javascript? Can a Reader plugin write data to Javascript field (that could store coords) for example (assuming that a plugin could get this info)? By the way, the users are currently using the older Adobe Acrobat reader 4.05 , but if there was a solution using 5 or 6 then it would lend more credence to the getting the users upgraded. Thanks Rob Cairns Senior Technical Specialist - I & C Safety Related Computers Computers and Control Design Department Ontario Power Generation Incorporated -------------------------------------------------------------- THIS MESSAGE IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE INTENDED RECIPIENT(S) AND MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, PROPRIETARY AND/OR CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, copying, conversion to hard copy or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this message in error, please notify me by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Ontario Power Generation Inc. To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
