I am a Prepress tech using an APPE workflow, the most current release. I have been seeing problems, since my upgrade and the advent of the CC, with PDF 1.4 being submitted for print. Mostly transparency problems. I have people modify their Adobe Press Quality PDF Preset to PDF 1.7, from InDesign. It helps greatly. Also makes me feel more confident in the soft proofing process, as v1.7 passes my EnFocus and RIP preflights better than lesser PDF versions. And I know this is an InDesign PDF export setting problem, but it is a Distiller preset, available within Indy. Can you please update your Press Quality Preset and share it with the other CC apps. I have other ideas about the Press Quality preset, but we will start with the important stuff. Much appreciated. bye bye then.

I am using MacOS Big Sur 11.6 and Acrobat Acrobat version 2021.007.20099.

The attached "Ful Score" PDF is displayed properly on the screen by Acrobat, but Acrobat prints it badly. I also included two screenshots, a *.png of Acrobat's display of the PDF (which looks OK) and a pdf produced by scanning a physical printout of that same PDF printed by Acrobat, which shows that Acrobat prints the file really badly.

The PDF was produced by Sibelius. I might say Sibelius was at fault for producing a bad PDF (probably with layers, but I'm not sure of the internals), except for one important fact:

The latest version of Acrobat displays it correctly and prints it badly. That disparity means you can't trust Acrobat to show you on the screen how it will print. That's really bad news. It means the software is lying to the user, who won't find out until after it is printed. Or even worse, until a customer on whose website you posted the file (because it looked fine in Acrobat) tries to print it and goes berserk -- lawsuits or other kinds of attacks are inevitable.

There is a button in Adobe Acrobat Pro that allows toggling thin line weights as shown on the screen on and off but there is now way to get the document to print with thin lines. This is true of both PDF and physical printers. This can make working with and sharing readable engineered drawings difficult. Please follow up on this regardless of vote count! If you need to gauge interest in this request you should search "how to print thin lines in Adobe Acrobat" and easily see that this improvement would be widely appreciated. Adobe has obviously realized the value of being able to view documents with their intended line weights, hence the existence of the toggle button. Now just make the print function use the current state of the existing line weight toggle button to decide how to print the line weights! Just like good ol' WYSIWYG ! It is obvious that relatively few users take the time to access or even know about the existence of this feature request page. Even if they did the functionality for searching for previous requests that match your own is not very effective so how to you expect important request to gather votes? Thank you for your attention to this critical feature update. Please help make the costly Acrobat Pro the only PDF software I need to accomplish my tasks.

To have the similar printing capabilities in other platforms. I often work with large size drawings. I print snipets using an 8.5x11 printer. When I get to the outer margin of the page (left-side mostly) I can't print using CURRENT VIEW at ACTUAL SIZE. This is very frustrating. I have to take a 15-step work around setting print box pages/cropping to get what I need. Only then to try and remember not to SAVE the file and the cropped view.

In AutoCad for example, I can pick my "plot" area using a window box (see files). This gives me the flexibility to print whatever area I need at the scale I want with the printer I want without interruption, frustration, multiple steps, or viewing window limitations.

In Acrobat, I've provided the issue to demonstrate (see files). In Capture-5 I can't slide left anymore due to the paper size restrictions and there is no additional buffer added in Acrobat. The Printer Preview window isn't interactive and let me slide it left; therefore I loose the left-hand side of the page that I need to include in the printing. This is using Current View and Actual Size selections.

Please make this more flexible and user friendly. Not everyone PRINTS TO FIT because sometimes those of us need to scale drawings in the architectural/engineering professions.

Feel free to use me as a test candidate before the NEXT UPDATE when you ADD this. Hopefully this improvement will be sooner than later.

Thanks. I hope the above suggestion made sense. On another note, even WORD and Excel offer "print selection" options.