Cracking the Code: Print-Optimized PDFs

Printing PDFs can be a little unpredictable. Some PDFs are built for print, and some are built for online distribution on the web. The way your PDFs are built will determine how they are sent to you from your customers, and how they are printed. The tools you have available will determine the effectiveness of your printed PDFs. If you are in an industry that relies on the accurate printing of PDF files, it’s important to have a print-optimized workflow.

Benefits of print-optimized PDFs:

• Reduce your time to print by printing correctly the first time
• Improve the quality of your printed documents
• Reduce time spent to get a good file and minimize the time it takes to find errors
• You don’t want to wait to find a problem with your files until you are going to press
• Save money by only having to print once

How do you know if your PDFs are print-ready? Read this post.

With our printing code samples for the Adobe PDF Library, you can see print optimization for PDFs in action. Let’s take a look at them.

Please note, the samples featured here are written in C++, however, we have additional code samples available in .NET and Java.

PDFPrintDefault

This sample allows a user to send a PDF document to a printer using a Windows print interface. This is helpful for anyone needing to make sure their PDF prints correctly the first time.

PDFPrintGUI

This sample utilizes a printer UI dialog to drive the printing of a PDF document. It works on Windows or MacOS. This gives users more control of how their PDFs are printed.