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PDF has globally becomes the most popular file format and there are more than 150 million PDF documents available on the web today. And it’s inevitable that you will receive many PDF files, along with some disturbed problems. Most people may have come across this case: you receive a large number of PDF files and want to print PDF files out, but only find that they are not printable, even not copyable. What will you do then? Give up the printing? Of course not. As we can find another way to print a PDF out.

How do I print PDF files when I meet a case to print PDF?

Case1: PDF file is printable

You can read PDF security properties to check if the PDF file is printable or not. You may wonder, how to check the security properties of a PDF file? It’s just so easy.

Open a PDF file -> go to Document on Menu Bar -> choose Security -> click Show Security Properties.

then you will see the detail security information of this PDF file as below:

If your PDF’s security shows just same as above, it’s printable, and you can directly print PDF out with a printer.

Case2: PDF is not printable

If the PDF file is not printable, you will see below information in Security Properties:

This PDF file is not only disallowed printing, but also disallowed copying and page extraction. In this case, we can’t print or copy the PDF in a normal way like case1, we need some help from a 3rd party software, which allows us to copy text from PDF to Word, then we can print PDF in Word document. Or directly convert PDF to Word with an efficient PDF to Word converter.

This is the way I print PDF files, how about you? If you have some good experiences to share with us, please follow us on Facebook to voice out your opinions.

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