Posted by Sharon Taylor on 9/4/07 5:48pm
Msg #209327

Help - using Vista Ultimate & HP1300 - docs centering

I'm using my new laptop which has Vista Ultimate, and my printer is my old reliable HP1300. Adobe is 7.0 version. I haven't had this problem before and am at a loss as to the problem.
The docs are a mix of legal and letter. I'm printing on legal, and I've got the Auto Rotate and Center button unchecked in the Print screen. For some reason, the letter size docs are still centered and printing in the center of the legal size paper. Checking and unchecking, closing and trying again, nothing works. I've looked at the various Advanced options, and there's nothing to resolve this problem.
Is it an Adobe 7.0 problem, or is it a Vista Ultimate problem or what??????
Thanks for any light any of you can shed on the problem and how to get docs to uncenter and print that way.

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 9/4/07 6:03pm
Msg #209331

Printed on legal and letter for now, but still need solution

For now, I just noted which pages were legal and which were letter, and switched papers/changed the setting as needed, but that's a pain in the you-know-where.
I didn't have this problem with Windows XP or Adobe 6. Seems to me I've read there's another upgrade of Adobe Reader to 8.0??????

Reply by MikeC/NY on 9/4/07 6:25pm
Msg #209335

Can you upgrade to Abode 8? It behaves much better than version 7 did.

Also, are you sure that the documents were not in fact scanned to be centered on the page?

Reply by Lee/AR on 9/4/07 7:40pm
Msg #209355

Check 'choose paper size by pdf paper size'. I'm not using Vista; am using Adobe 7 on a HP1200 and this is what works for me. Hope it helps.

Reply by Templin on 9/4/07 7:46pm
Msg #209356

In our printer set up menu, do you have which tray is which paper? meaning, tray 1, letter, tray 2 legal?

Reply by PAW on 9/4/07 8:14pm
Msg #209363

According to Adobe, only Adobe Reader version 8.1 is Vista compatible. You may need to upgrade your reader.

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 9/4/07 10:53pm
Msg #209383

Thanks, everyone - I'll have to upgrade to v.8

The "choose paper by pdf size" seems to work, sort of, but I'd have to keep switching paper since I don't have a second tray. Yea, I should get one, I know, but I've always been able to do fine without it until now.
I'll definitely upgrade to v.8 tomorrow, PAW. I had a feeling it might be an incompatibility issue.
Oh, PAW, thanks very much for having all those links to various edocs software on your site. Whenever we've had computer problems - motherboard died, processor bit the dust, hard drive gave up the ghost - I've been able to go there and get all the necessary edocs programs as soon as we were back up and running, putting me right back in business ready to download and print just about any type of package. To paraphrase the Antiques Roadshow, "You are a National Treasure"!

Reply by Sharon Taylor on 9/4/07 10:55pm
Msg #209384

Oh, should I uninstall v.7 before installing v.8?

Seems to me I read some posts that it's better to do a clean install???? Uninstall the current version and then download and install v.8?

Reply by Terri_CA on 9/5/07 2:04pm
Msg #209454

Re: Oh, should I uninstall v.7 before installing v.8?

Whenever I am installing upgraded product, I uninstall the old first But, read the installation instructions first.

Terri
Lancaster, CA

Reply by PAW on 9/5/07 2:34pm
Msg #209475

I would recommend it. But ...

In previous versions of Adobe Reader, the installation would not always work correctly if an older version was already installed. Version 8 installation program seems to be better at removing the "old" stuff. But I would still recommend uninstalling all previous versions of Adobe Reader (and removing any left over directories) and installing version 8 as a new clean install.