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It came out double sided, even though I checked the settings and double sided printing was not checked. On a hunch, I opened the pdf in Firefox and that time it printed single sided. So, is there setting in Acrobat or other PDF generator that will add something to the meta data that forces duplex printing? Jan 08, 2018 I am trying to turn off double sided printing in Acrobat Prop v11.02 for Mac iOS. The Adobe HELP page shows a PRINT dialogue with an option to turn on/off double-sided printing. The PRINT dialogue in my software does not resemble the HELP page. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC you can also go to web site get dot adobe.com slash reader go ahead and download that now if you haven’t done that and then come back. How do i print double sided on a mac, how do you print double sided on word, how do you print double sided on word 2016, how do you turn on two sided printing on a mac, two sided.
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Printing a Booklet
Sometimes, when proofing a document, it's useful to turn a PDF file into a booklet. When you choose this feature, Acrobat prints your document two pages per sheet of paper, double-sided, reordering the pages as needed to make a booklet (Figures 3.23 and 3.24).
Figure 3.23 To turn a four-page document into a booklet, Acrobat prints pages 4 and 1 on one side of the paper and pages 2 and 3 on the other.
Figure 3.24 Fold the paper to make your booklet. For longer documents, stack the paper, and staple the stack in the middle before folding.
Free Adobe Acrobat For MacTo print a document as a booklet
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We're creating a 2-page PDF brochure with a target audience who will print it on their regular office or home printers.
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If it is printed on a double-sided printer (common in offices), it'll come out correctly if set manually by the user to 'Flip on short edge', but will come out with the second page upside down if default settings are used (flip on long edge).
Our target audience aren't very tech-literate, and we've found that even within our own office network there is variation in the location of the 'Flip on short edge' setting - so it isn't realistic to give everyone who downloads the PDF instructions on how to change this setting or to expect everyone to find out how to change the setting off their own backs.
So, when creating a PDF (ideally using Adobe InDesign or Acrobat, but if other software or hacking is needed that's fine...), is there a way to configure the PDF file itself so that when printed double-sided with default settings, it flips on the short edge?
If possible, it'll be useful supplementary info to know how reliable any such methods are across different PDF readers (e.g. Adobe Reader, Acrobat, Mac Preview, inbuilt browser readers (e.g. chrome), FoxIt, etc).
If questions about content creation like this aren't a great fit here, feel free to migrate it to the graphic design stackexchange site - this question seems to fall half way between the two sites
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Not with consumer-grade technology, i.e. not for Adobe Reader or other typical applications. It may be technically possible with JDF, but that's not something you can produce or your audience can handle.
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