I have a PDF document which has shaded areas (code fragments, to be precise) and I am looking to print the document out with shading in tact. The shading is light grey (as used on www.stackoverflow.com).
I have set the document to print 2 pages to one sheet (as the document is in excess of 100 pages), and this works perfectly well; my problem, however, is that the shaded areas are not printing out and the blocks of sample code are now printing without any 'definition'/shading applied to them, so they now appear to blend in with the rest of the text.
Is there a way to get the shaded areas to print as they appear on screen?
FYI, I am using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.
Thank you.
EDIT: I have attached an screenshot of a sample page that I am attempting to print. The area within the red ellipse is the area that I wish to be able to print as seen on screen. However, whenever I print the document, the shaded areas are no longer shaded and there is no clear definition between the code samples and the remainder of the text. Please also note that I have attempted to print one full page at a time and there is no difference.
Best Answer
My wild guess is that you have some weird setting activated in your print dialog that you should change....
In the same dialog, you can also enable the "Print as Image" function (to checkbox). Try it.
BTW, what kind of printer is it that you are trying to print this to? (If it is a non-PostScript device, then some of the above mentioned settings will be disabled/grayed-out...)
Update:
I only now noticed from your screenshot, that you're using Adobe Acrobat Professional. In this case you can enable a rather sophisticated output preview: