Acrobat 6 Only Prints One Page of Multi-Page Documents

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

I'm pulling my hair out over this one.....I've seen countless posts about it here and on Apple's website, but no solutions. When I select print, only the first page will print, even though I've selected All Pages. I'm using an eMac, OSX 10.2.8, and an Epson Photo 820. I used to be able to print all pages, but now it won't, and I don't know what's different. I ran the 6.0.1 updater, with no improvement.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

It sounds silly but have you selected the pages 1-12 or how many there is to print.
Regards Bj.
PS. And have got the latest printer drive from their web site?

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

Yes to both.

[Art Parmet]

I've experienced the same situation on some pdf's - only the first page of a sequence will print (10.2.8, latest Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Reader).

Most recent experience is with some 12 page manuals from www.klipsch.com. According to the document properties, they were authored using QuarkExpress with Acrobat PDFWriter 3.0.1 for PowerMac as a producer (PDF version 1.1 (Acrobat 2.x)).

However, it does seem to depend on which printer I use. My HP LaserJet 1100 with Infowave Print Server (using CUPS setup) will exhibit this problem on some pdf documents. It doesn't matter what page selections are chosen - only the first page of the sequence will print. On the same document, my Epson SP1280 with EpsonNet Print Server (latest Epson drivers) prints OK.

Big difference is the document processing time on the 1280 is subtantially longer - Several minutes vs. a few seconds.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

Have you run disk utlities and repaired permissions, and will it print any other page if you choose it on it's own.
regards bj.

[Art Parmet]

Barry,
Same in my cases as well.

Chosing "print all", or a specific range of pages will result in only the first page of the sequence printed.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

Yes, Yes, and Yes.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

If you used to be able to print what have you done to your system to create this problem, think very carefully about this one the simplest thing may be the key.
Regards Bj.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

I wish I knew. Whatever it is, a lot of other people on Apple's discussion forums have done it too.

[Art Parmet]

In my case, it is only occasional pdf's that exhibit this problem, not all. When I do come accross one, it is repeatable.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

It's all of them for me.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What about reloading Acrobat?

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

I thought that would have worked, but it didn't.

[Art Parmet]

As an experiment, I opened a suspect pdf document with Preview v2.0.1 (X 10.2.8) and was able to print all/selected page range. This is with the LaserJet printer that was exhibiting problems on this document with Acrobat/Acrobat Reader.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What have Epson Tech support suggested?

[Casi...@adobeforums.com]

'print as image' worked for me

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

I haven't consulted Epson tech support, as the problem exists only with Acrobat, and it affects others regardless of the type of printer.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What happens when you print to Adobe PDF?
Does it create more than one page and can you print the new document that Adobe PDF creates.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

It will create all pages. No pdf's will print more than one page in Acrobat.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What happens if you post script the dock then distill and then print?
After this you've beaten me!

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

Nope, you win....I don't know what you mean.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

Sorry Douglas,
Print/save the doc to a postscript file from the aplication that created it then distill to pdf and then print the pdf.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

It didn't work. Same thing: it prints the first page, and thinks it's done.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What application creates this doc.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

Have you tried to print this doc to a different printer.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

No, I only have the one printer.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

What application creates this doc?

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

Actually, I tried it last with one created by Acrobat.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

The problem is with your Epson Printer you should be talking to them.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

My Epson printer has a problem that causes it to only print the first page of a document from Acrobat (and only Acrobat)? I don't think so. As I said in the beginning of this thread, I've already read about many other people experiencing this problem, with other brands of printers. That's why I brought my problem here: I figured someone may have already found the solution.

[Barry...@adobeforums.com]

How many page to this doc? have you un checked the collated box when printing, and what did the pages start as? Have you reloaded Acrobat? and why have you not tried to print it to an other printer?

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

The last one I tried was 60 pages. I have tried it with the collated box both checked and unchecked. I have reloaded Acrobat. And I don't own another printer.

[K_Mi...@adobeforums.com]

Printing with Apple`s Preview Program may be a workaround – in some case it prints PDFs which cannot Print from acrobat (incl. 6.0.1 professional).

It may a problem due to the fonts in the document incl. font encoding. Do you have text on your first (printable) page or other fonts than on the unprintable pages?

With which program do you produce the PDF and with which option (via Distiller, or via SAVE AS PDF). Documents created with this option form InDesign may not print while the pdf created via distiller does. This occurs with printer which has implemented an incomplete postscript emulation.

[Douglas_...@adobeforums.com]

Yes, text on the first page prints. I can't speak for all the programs that create the documents, because usually I didn't create the ones I need to print. Preview will print all pages.