The Print dialog box

The Print dialog is the final step before printing. You can modify the printer settings in this dialog as well. Be aware that changing the printer may affect the page setup if the new selected printer has a different paper size, for instance.

To open the Print dialog box, do one of the following: 

• Choose File > Print.

• Click the Print icon on the Quick Access Toolbar.

• Press Ctrl + P. 

• Right-click the tab, and select Print Current Tab to print the current PDF file, or select Print All Tabs to print all the opened PDF files.

Choose a printer from the menu at the top of the Print dialog box and specify the copies to print. Click Properties for more settings. (Refer to “Set Foxit PDF Editor Printer Properties”) 

• Advanced –Provides an option to auto-detect printers that support PCL for PCL optimization to improve the printing speed.

  Print Optimization allows you to optimize print jobs from a PCL driver, for features such as font substitution or scanning for vertical and horizontal rules. Foxit PDF Editor provides an option to auto-detect printers that support PCL for PCL optimization to improve the printing speed. To enable print optimization, please follow the steps below:

  • Choose File > Print to open the Print dialog box. 
  • Click Advanced at the top of the Print dialog box. 
  • In the Advanced dialog box, do the following:
    • Select a printer from Printers list, and click Add to add the selected printer to PCL Drivers list. 
    • Check one of the optimization options (Use <PCL_level> Driver for <PCL_level> Printers option) based on your printer driver level.
    • Click OK. 

Then you can execute printings with the optimized driver. And you can also remove the printer from the PCL Drivers list if you are not satisfied with the printing results it delivers. Just select the driver to be removed from the PCL Drivers list, click Remove and then choose OK to confirmation the operation.

Tip:To enable PCL print optimization, please make sure that the Use GDI+ Output for all types of printer option in the Print preferences is unchecked. Otherwise, settings in printer preferences will prevail and GDI++ device will be used for printing for all types of printers.

• Copies – Specify the number of copies to print for the selected files. 
• Collate – Assembles the printouts in a proper numerical or logical order when printing several copies. This option will be disabled when printing just one copy.
• Print as Grayscale –Converts color images in the file to shades of gray.
• Print as image –Prints pages as bitmap images. If normal printing doesn’t work or doesn’t produce well, check this option.
• Bleed Marks – Places a mark at each of the four corners of the bleed box to indicate the PDF bleed box boundaries. 
• Preview – Foxit PDF Editor provides an instant preview in the Print dialog box. Drag the slider to preview each page. When printing multiple PDF files in a portfolio, click the or button to switch between PDF files.   
• Print Range
  • Selected PDF files: Prints the selected PDF files in a portfolio. This option is only available when you have selected PDF files in a portfolio in the Layout or Details mode.
  • Current view: Prints the page area (including text, comments, images, tables, or a combination of all of them) that is visible in the current view. This option is not available if your current view contains more than one page. If you have selected a portion of a page with the Snapshot tool and print the selected area, the Current View option will be dynamically replaced with the Selected Graphic option.
  • Current page: Print the current page only.
  • All PDF files: Prints all PDF files in a portfolio. This option is only available when the portfolio contains PDF files and is in the Layout or Details mode.
  • All pages: Print all pages in the document.
  • Pages: Specifies the page range you want to print. If your PDF contains formatted page numbers, and the Use logical page numbers option is enabled in File > Preferences > Page Display, you should enter the numbers that match the numbering on the pages rather than the physical page numbers. For instance, if you want to print the second page of your document which is numbered ii, you should enter ii to print the page. See also the preference setting on logical page numbers.

  • Subset – Provides options for setting noncontiguous page range.

    All Pages in Range – Prints all the pages within the specified range.

    Odd pages only – Prints only pages with odd numbers within the specified range.

    Even pages only – Prints only pages with even numbers within the specified range.

Note: This option is especially helpful for two-side printing.

• Reverse pages – Prints pages in reverse order. If a page range is entered, the pages will print in the opposite sequence from how they were specified. For example, if you select to print the document from page 5 to page 30, selecting the Reverse pages option will print from page 30 to page 5. 
• Print Handling
  • Scale – None, Fit to Printer Margins, Reduce to Printer Margins and Custom Scale.
  • Choose paper source by PDF page size – Automatically selects the paper type according to the page size of the PDFs when printing.
  • Tile Large Pages – Tile the pages that are larger than the selected paper size at a specified scale.
  • Multiple Pages Per Sheet – multiple pages will be printed on the same sheet of paper. You can specify the settings like Pages Per Sheet, Page Order, Margins, etc.
  • Booklet – Booklet printing enables to print multiple pages on the same sheet of paper in correct order if the pages are folded. This requires the printer support to print on both sides.
  • Print on both sides of paper – To print double-sided pages, enable this option and choose the desired orientation. 
  • Auto-Rotate – Adjusts the PDF document’s orientation to match the orientation specified in the printer properties.
  • Auto-Center – Places the PDF pages in the center.                           
  • Orientation – Selects a page orientation to print the document in. If Auto portrait/landscape is selected, the printer will automatically adjust the page orientation based on the page size and the paper size. For example, with the page height larger than the page width, the printer will print the page in portrait orientation, and vice versa. The Choose paper source by PDF page size option in Page Handling overrides the Auto portrait/landscape option here.

  • Print What – Specifies to print documents only, annotations only, or both.

    Document – Prints the document contents and form fields, not including annotations.

    Document and markups – Prints document contents, form fields, and annotations. If you also need to print notes and pop-ups associated with comments, please make sure that you check the Print notes and pop-ups option in Commenting Preferences.  

    Document and stamps – Prints all document contents, form fields, and stamps, not including other markups (like note comments).  

    Form fields only – Prints interactive form fields only.   

    Annotations only – Prints annotations only.

• Summarize Comments – Prints the summarized comments to a separate and printable PDF file named “CommentsSummaryPrint.pdf”. See also “Summarize Comments”.

• Output

  Simulate Overprinting – Simulates the blending and overprinting of colors in the color-separated output. 

• Page setting – Set up the orientation, page size, and page margins for printing PDF files. You can also specify the orientation and page size in the Printer Properties dialog box or the Orientation setting in the Print dialog box. Those settings will keep synchronized across different dialog boxes or option groups. For the page orientation, the Auto portrait/landscape option in the Orientation setting in the Print dialog box takes precedence over the Portrait/Landscape setting in both the Page Setting dialog box and Printer Properties dialog box.