Answered Steps: 1. Take a word document, letter size - 8.5 x 11 2. Print it as pdf, open the pdf 3. Print word document to a printer 4. Print the PDF document to the printer. Compare the both prints - 6.
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PRINT FROM PDF IS SMALLER THAN THE PRINT FROM WORD. I want to get same printer output from the both use cases. Why pdf shrinks the page in the preview and prints smaller? How to enforce print original size like the microsoft word?
The size from pdf appears to be about 5% smaller in the page. Lori, Thanks for the reply. I guess I was not clear in the previous post: I printed the document using adobe pdf and then tried sending the document to printer. I compared the outputs from the printer, one sent thru word 2007 and the other thru Adobe pdf document. I got some more information on the print mismatch: It appears adobe for some reason adjusting the margins of a document. If the margin is small (may be smaller than one inch) on the document, then it is scaling down the content. It is important to remember, Word don't have any issues in printing the document with the original margins on the document.
I tested with a sample document by maintaining one inch margin on all four sides of the document then the print from Word and print from abode are exact match. IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN CONTROL THE MARGINS ENFORCED BY ADOBE?
Apr 17, 2018 - I can use PDF Creator and print it as a PDF and that doesn't shrink the document at all - is this a printer problem and not a Word issue?
Rjadobe1 wrote:Dov, I am doing the booklet printing, so the scale is not available. Is there any way I can upload an image here to illustrate the problem? Thanks RJRJ, Thanks for the information about doing 'booklet printing.' That changes the situation significantly.
I assume that you might be printing 8.5'x11' pages to 11'x17' paper for your booklet in which case you would reasonably expect that the 8.5'x11' logical pages in your PDF file would be printed full size on the 11'x17' paper. Apparently, though, the actual Acrobat implementation of 'booklet printing' does the equivalent of 'fit to printable area' accounting for the unprintable margins on your page. There is no easy workaround other than third party imposition plugins. A somewhat sophisticated workaround, assuming that you are printing to a PostScript printer, is to edit the PPD file for the printer to change the imageable area to 0 0 792 1224 for the 11x17 paper (either labelled as 'ledger' or 'tabloid').
I'll submit a bug on this to the Acrobat development group.