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Lately, the projects i have been printing to pdf are very slow. How to fix pdf file printing very slow make pdf printing fast. Slow printing from adobe due to flattening to frequently asked questions if you are printing a pdf file from adobe acrobat or adobe reader and you see a dialog that says its flattening the pdf and it takes forever to do it then you are likely printing a pdf file with transparency lines merge. Solutions below involve modifying the windows registry. For some files, acrobat reader dc prints slowly with pcl6 drivers.
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