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Re: Acrobat - earliest version with booklet printing?

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:49:16 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote :


> The latest Adobe Acrobat reader is of course bloated, slow, and hard to
> keep from calling home about this or that, and/or trying to sell you
> things.
> 
> One feature I do like, though, is the booklet (half-size) printing
> option it has. OK, my printer driver also has that option, but the Adobe
> one is much simpler to use (and possibly more versatile), and I don't
> run the risk of accidentally _leaving_ the printer set to that option
> for other printing jobs.
> 
> Anyone know what is the _earliest_ version of Adobe Acrobat Reader that
> includes that option? (oldversion.com has a good selection.)
> 
> Over the last day or two I've been struggling - and eventually gave up -
> installing the version called something like "11.0.1 XI" on this W10-64
> machine; not sure if that has the booklet option, but I remember it as
> being stable and quick. But - despite hours of help from ChatGPT
> (rebuilding .Net3.5, all sorts of other things) it just wouldn't
> install. I eventually installed Foxit 5.0.1.0523, just so I _have_ a PDF
> reader, but that doesn't have the booklet option (I don't know if any
> Foxit does, even the recent ones).

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:57:49 -0400, Paul wrote :


> There is a download here. I unpacked the first one and
> ran the Setup.exe from the folder created. It seemed to run
> no problem. Using control.exe and "Programs and Features : Windows Features",
> there is no .NET 3.5 in my Win10 22H2 VM, just .NET 4.8 or so has tick box ticked.
> 
> https://www.techspot.com/downloads/345-adobe-reader.html
> 
> Name: AdbeRdr11000_mui_Std.zip
> Size: 141015434 bytes (134 MiB)
> SHA256: ECB34BB1A10CF0DADD09103F0F8C378153E01620D4D5C2BA795C273633DC1880
> 
> Name: AdbeRdrUpd11023_MUI.msp
> Size: 39866368 bytes (38 MiB)
> SHA256: 1D226D0EF7C6346D5E0E5FE0BB0A6C2C30B5A5729E441E52C56C0260B676D1DE
> 
> This software is discontinued, and is the last to run on older OSes.
> Which would be a good reason for it to run on .NET 3.5 or so I suppose.
> 
> Anyway, the "printing" on my test vm, would be done by "Microsoft Print To PDF"
> 
> When Microsoft Print To PDF prints for Notepad, no options at all are offered.
> 
> When Microsoft Print to PDF prints for Acrobat Reader, the GUI changes on the
> print dialog, to include "Booklet". And indeed, using the .cab from the installer
> above and finding "Words.pdf" sample document, it printed in Booklet mode,
> where if folded A4 sheets accordion style, it would "make sense".
> 
> I'll glue a picture together later, and post it, of the bits and pieces.
> But basically, even without using the .msp and bringing it up to date,
> there is still a Booklet mode offered.
> 
> On occasion, I caught the software "bogging" and it took a visit
> to Task Manager to kick it out of its funk. Is that normal for computers
> in the year 2025 ? Apparently so... Grrr.

I've been running Adobe Acrobat 6 (the writer) since the beginning of time.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/C5TdD4Vs/pdf07.jpg>

Mainly because it runs on as many PCs as install it on using the same
registration number (which I bought almost billion years ago).

It works on almost all PDFs & those that it doesn't work on almost always
be downgraded with tricks to the version that Adobe Acrobat 6 works on.

Now, to see if it can print to PDF like FinePrint always did at a cost.
 Acrobat6(writer):File > Print setup > Printer > Microsoft Print to PDF
 
Bummer. I don't see a booklet half-size printing format option.
But when I think of "booklet" I think of a far more complex printing.
Such as re-arranging odd/even pages at half size so you can fold it.
Once you fold it & staple the centerline - you now have a booklet.
Four pages to a single 8.5x11 standard letter sheet.
Folded in half and stapled - it becomes a half-sized book. 

If I needed to print a "booklet" (for some values of booklet), I'd use:
 <https://fineprint.com/fpsupport-topic/how-do-i-fix-double-sided-and-booklet-printing-problems/>

Does any Adobe free product print booklets? Dunno. This might help:
 <https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/ways-print-pdfs.html>

Apparently somepeople have tried:
 <https://www.reddit.com/r/YearCompass/comments/acejtc/how_do_you_print_and_staple_the_a5_booklet/>

But what the OP calls a "booklet" may not be the same thing as above.
Can the OP describe what he means by "booklet"?

It could be just "half sized" (which isn't a booklet at all, to me).
Or it could be something that is folded and read like a book would be.

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