With the PDF opened in Adobe Acrobat, choose the File->Save As Other->Reduced Size PDF\u2026<\/p>\n
It is probably best to save this version separately, so as to retain the original\u2026 just in case. Once you have this new file \u2013 try to print it and see if the problem is solved.<\/p>\n
Save as \u201cOptimized PDF\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\nWith the PDF opened in Adobe Acrobat, choose the File->Save As Other->Optimized PDF\u2026<\/p>\n
It is probably best to save this version separately, so as to retain the original\u2026 just in case. Once you have this new file \u2013 try to print it and see if the problem is solved.<\/p>\n
Run the PDF through a \u201cPreflight\u201d tool<\/strong><\/h3>\nWindows<\/strong>: From the top menu, choose the View->Tools->Print Production menu<\/p>\nThis will open a pop out pane on the right side of the Acrobat window. You will see a menu item titled \u201cPreflight\u201d<\/p>\n
Mac<\/strong>: From the top menu, choose the Edit->Preflight menu.<\/p>\nYou will see something similar to the screenshot below. If not already selected, choose \u201cMagazine Ads\u201d item under the \u201cPrepress\u201d section, and click the \u201cAnalyze and fix\u201d button. This will spit out a bunch of output. Once completed, save this file separately, so as to retain the original. Once you have this new file \u2013 try to print it and see if the problem is solved.<\/p>\n
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Windows<\/strong>: From the top menu, choose the View->Tools->Print Production menu<\/p>\n This will open a pop out pane on the right side of the Acrobat window. You will see a menu item titled \u201cPreflight\u201d<\/p>\n Mac<\/strong>: From the top menu, choose the Edit->Preflight menu.<\/p>\n You will see something similar to the screenshot below. If not already selected, choose \u201cMagazine Ads\u201d item under the \u201cPrepress\u201d section, and click the \u201cAnalyze and fix\u201d button. This will spit out a bunch of output. Once completed, save this file separately, so as to retain the original. Once you have this new file \u2013 try to print it and see if the problem is solved.<\/p>\n PDF files sometimes give us a lot of trouble when we try to print them. The causes are usually unknown, but may stem from inefficient PDF creation on the publisher side (not everyone uses Adobe Acrobat Pro to create their PDFs, unfortunately). Here are some tips to help you get that pesky PDF to print […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28,18,5,9,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","category-cns-computer-lab","category-computer-labs","category-general-cnsit","category-printing","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"