How to Print PDF as Image in Adobe Acrobat Reader

There are many solutions to distortion-oriented printing troubles. Adobe presents a fairly simple solution. It's called "Print as Image" function. Need more explanation, right? Let me put it this way: For instance, if you find a particular PDF printed with distortions (e.g. fonts gone out of proportion, lines intertwined), you can make Adobe^® Acrobat^® put the actual PDF aside and instead, take a simple image from the whole file, which will be used for printing in the final stage. Take it into account that it might take longer than usual printing because obviously Adobe needs more RAM to finalize the process. Now let's learn how to print PDF as image using Adobe Acrobat.

Steps for Printing PDF as an Image in Adobe^® Acrobat^®

Launch Adobe Reader. Open your PDF. Go to "File". Click on "Print" or use this shortcut "Ctrl+P".
On the new screen, you see a few options. From a conservative perspective, everything is as simple and straightforward as it can get. Click on "Advanced", right at the top next to "Properties" (keep in mind that you might have to look for it somewhere else, considering your incumbent version of Adobe).
Now, on the new screen, you have the following options: PostScript Options and Color Management.
Right under Color Management, check "Print as Image". Remember that, if you check it, then you are going to lose Color Management features.
Finally, hit "OK" and apply further adjustments to the document, in case you need any, and hit "Print".

However, Adobe^® Acrobat^® XI eas EOL on October 15, 2017. There will be no more security and product updates, and no more customer support, which might cause your file and data insecure. In this case, you can click here to find out the best alternatives to Adobe Acrobat.

More Solutions to Print a PDF

A simple yet comprehensive, cheap yet practical, easy-to-learn yet not over-simple application: PDFelement . It can be just the lost treasure you’ve been looking for. Here is why: It is an advanced PDF editor with comprehensive annotation tools, outstanding display views, smooth document rendering engine, PDF creation tools, PDF protection features, an unending range of supported formats (Word, Excel, txt, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML, RTF and images like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF) in conversion and most importantly to scanning agencies, diligent students and generally document recorders is the OCR plug-in, which helps you digitalize scanned documents.

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PDFelement uses particular algorithms and processes certain calculations to make sure that the print is done as authentically as possible in the highest probable quality.

Step 1. Open Your PDF in PDFelement

Launch the application. Open your PDF document by clicking the "Open File..." button on the Home window. Alternatively, you can go to "File > Open" to choose the target PDF document.

Step 2. Print Your PDF

You can either go to "File > Print" or use this shortcut "Ctrl+P". Under "Printer", you can choose your default printer - Wondershare PDFelement. Click on "Printer Properties" to have more control over your printers. To adjust the watermarks, header/footer and security of the PDF document, click on "Advanced Settings". And finally under "Print Mode", click on "Multiple" and you can adjust the number of pages to be printed.