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Wow! This is the $64,000.00 question! We need to do this, too, and we've been trying to find a way to do it for several years. Our Web-based ASP application (www.ReplyMailOnLine.com) generates PDF documents that contain U.S. Postal Service bar codes and other graphics that MUST be printed at 100% scale. Many versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Reader/Adobe Reader are set for "Fit to page" by default, and this causes tons of problems for us. I know that we could do some things with JavaScript that would address this, but the JavaScript-based solutions would not work with Reader, which is what most of our customers use. I've had several discussions with Adobe's technical people about this, and I've also suggested that Adobe stop enabling "Fit to page" by default in future product releases. The last time I talked about this with a technical person at Adobe, I was told, "It's always better to print a document at the largest size that will fit on the page." I then explained to him why it is NOT always better. :) If anyone has any ideas about how to deal with this issue, I'd like to hear about it. Also, if others in this group would make an effort to contact Adobe's people about this problem, maybe things will change for the better down the road. - Cynthia Leslie ----- Original Message ----- From: "David R Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:52 AM Subject: [PDFdev] Specifying print options in PDFs > > PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > _____________________________________________________________ > > Is there any way within PDF to specify that a PDF should not be printed > with shrink to fit or any scaling? This is required for architectural > drawings in PDF, as measurements taken from scaled printed output could > be disastrous(!). > > I don't think that this is possible without a plug-in being required on > the end user's computer. Job tickets, for example, cannot force this > (can they by requiring a certain paper size?), and of course job tickets > would not apply when printed to a standard printer as far as I know. > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > David > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > Dr David R Evans Telephone: (+44) 115 9524333 > Merlin Open Systems Facsimile: (+44) 115 9472625 (& 24hr answerphone) > P O Box 230 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NOTTINGHAM WWW: http://www.merlin-os.co.uk/ > NG1 3ND, UK > Acrobat resellers, specialists in Adobe Acrobat > plug-ins and electronic publishing software > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
