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Thanks, I'll take a look at it. -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF] Printing a portion of a page The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com __________________________________________________________________ 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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
