Print PDF files

  1. Make sure that you have a printer connected to your computer.

  2. To print a single PDF file, open a PDF with Right PDF and do one of the following:

  • Click the Print button on Quick Access Toolbar.

  • Press Command + P on your keyboard.

  • Choose File > Print.

  1. To print multiple PDF files, open Right PDF and choose File > Batch Print, and in the Print dialog box, do the following:

  • Click Add Files … > Add File … to add files to the queue (or select Add Folder … to include all files therein). In the Open dialog box, select a file.

  • You may select Include All Open PDF Documents to add all currently open PDF files to the queue.

  • After files are added, select one from the list, and click Page Range Options …to decide which pages to print.

  • In Files list, click Move up or Move down to change the printing order, or click Remove to delete selected files.

  1. Select a printer and adjust other settings as needed. See About Print dialog box for more information.

  2. Click Print to start.

Print Document Tab

You can print one or more currently open Document tab files by following the steps below:

  1. Right-click a tab, select Print Current Tab to print the current file, or select Print All Tabs to print all currently open files.

  2. In Print dialog box, adjust the settings as needed and click OK.

Print a Part of the Page

  1. Click Basic > Select Area.

  2. Draw a rectangle to select a portion of a page.

  3. In the popup menu, select Print Selection.

  4. In Print dialog box, adjust the settings as needed and click OK.

About Print Dialog Box

  • Printer. Choose a printer from the list of printers installed on the computer. Click Properties … to adjust printer settings. To learn more about printer settings, see Mac print dialog box help.

  • Copies. Set how many copies you need.

  • Collate. When printing more than one copy of a multi-page document, pages are printed in the correct order from the first page to the last page, before the next copy is printed. This becomes unavailable when you print only one document.

  • Print Content

    • Document and comments. Print document content, form fields and annotations.

    • Document content. Print document content and form field. Annotations excluded.

    • Form fields only. Print only interactive form fields.

  • Print Range: Specify the pages or range of pages to print.

    • All pages. Print all pages in the document.

    • Current page. Print only the current page.

    • Current view. Prints the area currently visible. Unavailable when the current view includes multiple pages.

    • Selected area. Print the area specified by the Select Area tool.

    • Page range. Print the range of pages you specify. Use a hyphen to separate numbers in a range, and use a comma to separate individual pages or ranges (for example, 6, 10-31, 42).

      Tip: if your PDF contains formatted page numbers, and the Use logical page numbers is selected in Preferences … > Page Display, you need to enter numbers that match the numbering on the pages. For example, if the first page of a document is numbered 42, you have to enter 42 to print that page.

    • Subset. Choose to print all pages in range, odd pages only, or even pages only.

    • Reverse pages. Print pages in reverse order. Not available when printing only 1 page.

  • Print Handling

    • Size: Scale pages for printing. This is used to print each page on a paper respectively.

      • Fit to paper. Shrink or enlarge pages to fit the paper.

      • Actual size. Print the pages without scaling. Pages or selections that don’t fit on the paper will be cropped.

      • Shrink oversized pages. Shrink large pages to fit the currently selected paper size, but does not enlarge small pages. If an area is selected and is larger than the printable area of the currently selected paper, it will be scaled to fit the printable area.

      • Custom size. Specify a percentage to scale pages.

      • Auto-rotate and center. Automatically select the page orientation that best matches the content and paper, and also make the content center-aligned. This option overrides the orientation selected in Page Setup.

      • Remove margins. Remove page margins.

    • Poster: scale large format document like poster or banner to print-friendly sizes, and split the page across multiple sheets.

      • Tile Scale. Scale the pages by the percentage you specify.

      • Overlap. Set the amount each page tile overlaps adjacent page tiles.

      • Cut Marks. Add guide marks to each page so that you can easily trim the overlapped area.

      • Labels. Add the filename and page number on each page tile.

      • Tile only large pages. Apply tiling to pages which are larger than the selected paper size at the specified scale. These pages are mapped to multiple sheets of paper.

      • Remove margins. Remove page margins.

    • Multiple: print two or more PDF pages onto a single sheet of paper. You can adjust settings like Pages per sheet, Page order and Print page border as needed.

      • Pages Per Sheet. Horizontally and vertically print a specified number of pages, or a custom number (up to 99). If you select a number from the drop-down menu, Right PDF will automatically select the best orientation for printing.

      • Page Order. Define the page order on paper. Horizontal arranges pages from left to right, top to bottom; Horizontal Reversed arranges pages from right to left, top to bottom; Vertical arranges pages top to bottom, left to right; Vertical Reversed arranges pages top to bottom, right to left.

      • Print page border. Print the crop box (the page boundary of PDF pages).

      • Auto-rotate and center. Automatically select the page orientation that best matches the content and paper, and also make the content center-aligned.

      • Remove margins. Remove page margins.

  • Booklet: print multiple pages onto a single piece of paper following the reading order of a folded booklet. The printer must support automatic or manual duplex printing.

    • Booklet subset. Choose Front side only or Back side only to print the document on the front or back side of the paper. Choose Both sides to print both sides of the paper.

      Note: if your printer doesn’t support automatic duplex printing, you need to manually turn or flip the pages and put them back in. Select Front side only to print the page on the front side of the paper, after flip the pages and select Back side only afterwards.

    • Sheets. Specify the first and last sheet to prin

    • Binding. Decide the orientation for the binding, which has two options: left and right. For left-to-right reading, choose Left; for paper folded on the long side (the printable area is long and narrow), choose Left (Tall). For right-to-left reading or for Asian-style vertical reading, choose Right; for paper folded on the long side, choose Right (Tall).

  • Orientation. Determine the orientation for printing.

  • Print as image. Print a PDF file as an image. If normal printing does not produce the expected result, you can select Print as image and choose a DPI value from the drop-down menu.

  • Print to file. Create a device-dependent PostScript file of a document. The result file contains code for enabling and controlling specific device features, making it incompatible with devices other than the target device.

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