[Hidden-tech] Adobe Acrobat question

[Steve Hawley]

Oh hey - you're using Acrobat! Good for you!
Many years ago, I worked on Acrobat and I can tell you that deciding 
what should be printed (or not) is something that varies wildly on the 
user's needs and as a result, the UI often is confusing. To makes things 
even more confusing, Acrobat routinely changes it's UI so that something 
you were familiar with before is now called something else and has been 
moved somewhere else.

Text boxes added onto a page are annotations and/or form fields. 
Annotations are not so much part of a page as added onto a page. And 
even within annotations, there are different classes of annotations, one 
major type called "mark up".

We had some interesting issues because one of group of users expected 
that when they printed a page, they would see exactly what they saw on 
their screen. Other people said, "no, I only want to see mark up 
annotations." Other people said, "no, I only want to see the contents of 
the page.

As a result, whether or not annotations should be printed got to be an 
option.

In Acrobat 7, in the print dialog, there should be a Comments and Forms 
section, which will let you select that you want to print Document and 
Markups, which should do what you want.

Steve