ADOBE READER 8
User Guide
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PostScript options
Use the PostScript Options panel of the Advanced Print Setup dialog box to set options for a particular PostScript
printer, such as how to handle nonresident printer fonts and whether to download Asian fonts. In addition, if a PDF
contains device-dependent settings, such as halftones and transfer functions, these settings can be sent in the
PostScript output to override the default settings in the printer. To use these options, you must be connected to a
PostScript printer or have a PostScript printer driver installed with a PPD file selected.
Language Specifies the level of PostScript to generate for the pages. Choose the level of PostScript appropriate for
your printer.
Font And Resource Policy Specifies how fonts and resources in the document are sent to a printer when those fonts
and resources aren’t present on the printer.
• Send At Start Downloadsallfontsandresourcesatthestartoftheprintjob.Thefontsandresourcesremainon
the printer until the job has finished printing. This option is the fastest but uses the most printer memory.
• Send By Range Downloads fonts and resources before printing the first page that uses them, and then discards
them when they are no longer needed. This option uses less printer memory. However, if a PostScript processor
reorders the pages later in the workflow, it might not reorder the font downloading correctly, resulting in missing
fonts. This option may not work with some printers.
• Send For Each Page Downloads all fonts and resources for a given page before the page prints, and then discards
the fonts when the page has finished printing. This option uses the least printer memory.
Download Asian Fonts Prints documents with Asian fonts that aren’t installed on the printer or embedded in the
PDF. The Asian fonts must be present on the system.
Emit CIDFontType2 As CIDFontType2 (PS Version 2015 And Greater) Preserves hinting information in the original
font when printing. If unselected, CIDFontType2 fonts are converted to CIDFontType0 fonts, which are compatible
with a wider range of printers. This option is available for PostScript 3 and PostScript Level 2 (PostScript version
2015 and later) output devices.
Print As Image Prints pages as bitmap images. Select this option if normal printing doesn’t produce the desired
results. This option is available only for PostScript printers.
Downloading Asian fonts to a printer
Select the Download Asian Fonts option in the Advanced Print Setup dialog box if you want to print a PDF with
Asian fonts that are not installed on the printer or embedded in the document. (Embedded fonts are downloaded
whetherornotthisoptionisselected.)YoucanusethisoptionwithaPostScriptLevel2orhigherprinter.Tomake
Asian fonts available for downloading to a printer, be sure you have downloaded the fonts to your computer using
the Custom or Complete installation option during installation of Acrobat.
If Download Asian Fonts is not selected, the PDF prints correctly only if the referenced fonts are installed on the
printer. If the printer has similar fonts, the printer substitutes those. If there are no suitable fonts on the printer,
Courier is used for the text.
If Download Asian Fonts does not produce the results you want, print the PDF as a bitmap image. Printing a
document as an image may take longer than using a substituted printer font.
Note: Some fonts cannot be downloaded to a printer, either because the font is a bitmap or because font embedding is
restricted in that document. In these cases, a substitute font is used for printing, and the printed output may not match
the screen display.
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