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I am creating a manual by combining multiple PDF files in Acrobat 9 Standard (9.3.2). Because I'm combining multiple source files, I must add the page numbers in Acrobat after merging.

I add the <<1>> code to the footer. It looks fine in Acrobat itself, but when I print to the Laserjet 4000 (PCL 6 driver) the page numbers don't actually appear on the printed page.

I can't find any reference to this on Adobe's forums or knowledgebase.

EDIT: I tried printing to a different printer (but also the PCL 6 driver). No improvement.

Another EDIT: printing to file also doesn't include the footer.

Any suggestions?

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@CarlF: I don't think it is a bug in Acrobat 9. It's more likely that you've inserted your pages as "annotation" objects. Then, in Acrobat, for some reason your default printout setting said "don't print annotations, just the regular content".

However, in your Reader, for some reason your default printout setting said "print all -- annotations as well as regular content".

I may be wrong of course, I'm just guessing...

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... you are in fact wrong. As I wrote originally, the pages printed, just not the page numbers. – CarlF Dec 20 '10 at 5:25
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@CarlF: you misunderstood me. I was assuming the "pages" printed, when I said "regular content". And I was assuming the "page numbers" didn't print, when I said "annotations". -- The point was that very likely your retrospective adding of what you call "page numbers" was (unknowningly) done as an "annotation" (as it is called internally in PDF lingo). – pipitas Dec 20 '10 at 16:57
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It's a bug in Acrobat 9. I was able to print the same file, with the footer working normally, from Adobe Reader.

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