PDFs - any simple way of printing on opposite side?

PeterOHanrahanrahan

I often use tracked labels for posting, which require printing, and the majority of which are placed at the top left of an A4 PDF file. I usually use four-per-page label sheets of A4, and I'd like to know if there's a simple way of using the right hand labels on each page.

Using the 'mirror image' and/or 'rotate 180 degree' settings in the printer settings results in the label being printed on the right hand side but back to front.

I may well be missing something obvious here but any advice on this would be appreciated. I don't make the PDF files myself so don't have any access to edit them.

Le_Kirk

Turn the paper round will get you one more label but still leave you with two unused. Have you tried copying the address from the .pdf and pasting it into a Word document, then using Mailing, Labels?

PeterOHanrahanrahan

Thanks for your reply.

I do turn the paper round and so two out of the four get used.

I've tried copying and pasting into Word but as there's usually a couple of barcodes on the label they don't show up at all when doing so - and the formatting of the rest of the label doesn't keep either.

forgotmyname

Set your margins to push the print further over. use the print screen button to take a snapshot of the label and use any word or paint program to print it with the margins pushed over.

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cookie365

Foxit pdf viewer has a snapshot funtion that takes an image of a selected area of a pdf.

So zoom to 100%, take the snapshot, paste into Word and arrange according to your label sheet layout.

PeterOHanrahanrahan

Yep, that works perfectly. Acrobat also has a snapshot function which I didn't realise previously.
Thanks all for the help - no more wasted labels now

Terry98

Strange. The only 'Thank You' was to the OP who got his problem sorted out.

Never mind cookie365 I have just given you a 'Thank You' to make it a 1000!

PeterOHanrahanrahan

Terry98 wrote: »

Strange. The only 'Thank You' was to the OP who got his problem sorted out.

Never mind cookie365 I have just given you a 'Thank You' to make it a 1000!

Good point, very remiss of me! Rectified