Foxit PDF Reader

Hi Rodney

I just re-installed Foxit Reader to see what you are asking for.

Printing one page as a default is NOT a function of the Foxit reader but a print dialog setting.  When you click Foxit Print and the print dialog is displayed, under print range click on current page and print.  If you want to print a page other than the current and you know the page number, or numbers, you can click on Pages and enter the page number(s) in the box and then print.

There is one thing to check:

Go to Control Panel
Open the Printers and Faxes folder
Right-Click on your default printer's name
Click on Printing Preferences

Check if there is a printer setting for printing just the current page. Not all printers will have the setting.  I have an Epson printer and I don't see that setting. Realize that this will change the setting for ALL printing.  Other than that one could possibly change a default printer Registry setting (haven't checked). That solution is not recommended, especially if you have never edited the registry before.  

Maybe someone has a way without any of the above.  The easiest method is to just click current page before printing.

Jerry B 

Rod, I agree with you on what the default SHOULD be. As far as I know, no reader has that option, included the bloated Adobe.

G'Day Rodney

"The easiest method is to just click current page before printing." say what !?
Sorry about that.  When the printer dialog comes up, in the section "Print Range" there are some options:
                        

All	Probably selected
Current View	Don't worry about it
Current Page	Select this to print the page currently displayed.
Pages	Use this to print a set of pages.  Not the document page number but the physical page number. That means document page could be Page 34, but physical page is 1. Define page numbers as follows:         Consecutive Pages  1-5     Non Consecutive     11,34,51     Both                     1-5,11,34,51

I will check to see if Foxit can have addins.  If so, I will look to see what language the addin has to be in.  In that case I might be able to create an addin to do what you want. If an addin, there will probably be another button on Foxit's toolbar.

I had to pull out the paper tray to stop the thing,
In order to stop printing, you have to delete the print job. Pulling out the paper tray is not the answer because as soon as you put it back printing will resume. There may still data in the printer's print buffer and it will print no matter what.

The following is one way, and maybe the easiest way to cancel a print job.  Windows 7 and 8 print dialog may be slightly different.

1. Go to Control Panel
    a. Open the Printers and Faxes folder
    b. Right Click the default printer (usually has a check mark on it.
    c. In the Right Click menu select Create Shortcut. A message will be displayed:
        Windows cannot create a shortcut here/ Do you want the shortcut to be placed
        on the Desktop instead?
    d. Click Yes
    e. Close all dialogs and windows.
 
 A shortcut to the printer should now be on your desktop.

To use the Shortcut

1.  Double Click the shortcut icon on the desktop.
2.  A printer dialog will open showing the document that is currently being printed
     as well as any other documents ready to be printed.
3.  Click on the document whose printing is to be canceled. It should now be highlighted.
4.  On the dialog box menu bar Click Document
5.  On the Dropdown Menu click Cancel

It can be done without the shortcut but shortcuts are cheap.

One caveat. When printing any document, print lines are sent to the Pc spooler and then to the printer's buffer (depends on application). The print job cancel does not occur until the spooler asks the application for more data or, most likely, the printer's print buffer is empty. Therefore, you may get a couple of extra pages but surely not the whole nine yards.

I hope this helps you some.  I agree with BC.  I have never seen a reader yet that had that option.

BTW:  See us software people are not all that stupid 

ZuZu:
I just read your reply.  If I can create an addin to Foxit I will incorporate that feature.  I am not sure if Acrobat can have addins without Adobe's software library which costs big bucks.

Jerry B
                            

The simplest thing would be to right click a page, and have a "print current page" option. Why is it that so little thought is put into useful functionality for some software, rendering it to almost total uselessity? *rant over*

Jerry,
have a desktop Icon now...Thanks very much to your extended advice..

As a new user of a printer, one cannot forsee what is going to happen, or how to fix it, whilst the machine is spitting out archival pages at 50 sheets a minute, pulling out the paper tray is THE only option in this scenario.
I did cancel the printing job, but the printer was having none of that, it was printing the whole 120 pages baby!

I have had other advice on another forum where one has to "pause" the print job, THEN cancel the print job.
also, others chipped in of instances where secretaries have printed reams of not need paper, so I am not the only Dunce

I managed collateral damage to 30 sheets, so I'll print on the back of them.

Help on hacking my own *.pdf's please.

I create my own Album Page *.pdf's
I make a typo and try to alter the text
I use Libre Office (Free) and can open and edit my text.

Libre Office will then not save as an *.pdf file rather, an ot? (I think) Libreoffice flat text file.

Any workarounds rather than to have to build a complete new PDF file?

Thanks
PS I use Foxit reader.

Many thanks ncbucki, shall kick some tyres, and report back.

It's probably looking for Ghostscript, which is an open source postscript interpreter.  You can download it form here:

www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

Tons of different programs will make a call to the ghostscript command line tool to import a PDF for editing.

"Rod, This may be what you're looking for."

Steve, you are a Godsend. Woohoo,
You have saved me oodlies of work and frustration.
Very much appreciated.
So I can open any PDF in Libre Office, edit text and re save as a PDF.

The last software I visited, was "Free Trial" ("Go on, try it now") was the teaser,
no price listed of course, so you take your shopping basket right to point of sale, before you learn $218
When are these velvet scammers going to wake up, this route doesn't work. (or at least shouldn't)

PS: Used Sumatra pdf reader for several years without issue, I cannot recall why I changed to Foxit,
I think there maybe were files Sumatra had issue with later.

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Yep, sure enough. It's going to throw your centering off on stuff. I played around with Steiner's stampalbums.com pages. He uses Helvetica as his font. I don't have Helvetica installed on my system. So, LibreOffice substitutes in another font. So, the text box the font is in is centered, but the text no longer fills the box, so it's off to the left.

The obvious solution would be to install Helvetica, but it looks like not all Helvetica is the same. I installed Helvetica from the Adobe Font Folio, and it also does not fill the page.

Solution #2 would be to center in the text box. For some reason, when I select the text in the box and choose to center it, it does not move. I'll need to tinker with it some more and see what's going on.

So, here's the unmodified page:



And here's the edited page:



You can see how the centering is off in image 2.

I did technical support for a deskto publishing group for quite a few years.  So, I am hypercritical when it comes to stuff like this.  :-)