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Last updated on
Aug 16, 2025
Learn how to adjust print settings in Adobe Acrobat Pro to control how your PDFs are printed.
Adobe Acrobat Pro offers a range of print settings to help you control how your PDFs are printed. These options let you fine-tune what content is printed, which pages to include, and how the layout appears. Understanding these options helps ensure your PDFs print exactly as intended.
Comments and Forms
Use the Comments & Forms dropdown to decide which content elements are included in the printout.
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Description |
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Document |
Prints only the document contents and form fields. |
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Document and Markups |
Prints document contents, form fields, and comments. |
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Document and Stamps |
Prints the document, form fields, and stamps, but not other markups such as note comments and pencil lines. |
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Form fields only |
Prints interactive form fields but doesn't print document contents. |
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Summarize Comments |
Creates a separate, printable PDF of the comments in a document. This option is unavailable when printing from a web browser or printing multiple documents in PDF portfolios. |
Pages to Print
The Pages to Print settings help you define which pages to include in the print job.
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All |
Prints all the pages in the PDF file. |
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Current |
Prints the page that is visible in the current view. |
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Pages |
Specifies the range of pages to print. Use a hyphen to separate numbers in a range. Use a comma to separate individual pages or ranges (for example, 6, 10-31, 42). |
Note
If Use logical page numbers is enabled in Page Display preferences, enter the actual page label. For example, if the first page is numbered iii, enter iii to print that page.
More Print options
These advanced settings allow additional control over how pages are printed.
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Description |
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Current View/Selected Graphic |
Prints either the visible area, selected pages, or the text and graphics copied with the Snapshot tool. The label changes based on your selection. |
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Odd or Even Pages |
Choose to print All pages, Odd pages only, or Even pages only. |
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Reverse pages |
Prints pages in reverse order. If a page range is entered, the pages print in the reverse of how they were specified. |
Orientation
Auto Portrait/Landscape automatically adjusts the page orientation (portrait or landscape) to best fit the content and paper size.
- Ideal for mixed-layout documents. For example, spreadsheets (landscape) and newsletters (portrait).
- This setting overrides the manual orientation specified in Page Setup.
