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Adobe Reader 6.0 (free download from Adobe) has a "snapshot tool" built in that will capture and paste to the clipboard any portion of a PDF page. You could utilize an additional utility such as PDF-SnapShot http://www.pdfstore.com/details.asp?ProdID=680 that will automatically grab the clipboard image and convert it into a PDF file itself. Steve Harris ----- Original Message ----- From: "CAIRNS Robert -NUCLEAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:08 AM Subject: [PDF] Printing a portion of a page > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
