Bug in Acrobat 8.0?
Peter
identified what appears to be a bug in Acrobat 8.0 Professional.
First let me say that I do NOT want to fit my document to page. Perish the
thought. I want full-page 8 1/2" x 11" documents to be printed on 8 1/2" x
11" paper.
Anyhoo, the meat of the issue is this: Acrobat 8 is printing every PDF file
I give it with unnecessarily wide margins. Most of my printers can print to
within about 1/8" of the edge of a letter-sized page. When I print documents
from Acrobat 8, any text or image data outside of about 1/2" from the edge
(and wider at the bottom) gets cropped off. Big problem! This happens
regardless of what printer I print to (and, managing a print shop, I have a
lot to test on), so I know it's not a printer or driver issue. The data for
that area of the page is not being sent. I have uninstalled and reinstalled
Acrobat 8 to no avail. Also, Acrobat 6, which I still have installed, prints
the exact same PDF files perfectly, using the printers' own internal
margins. It happens with every PDF file, even ones I create in InDesign CS3
(I created and printed a solid gray test PDF in InDesign, which is how I
know the margins Acrobat 8 is using).
So how do I get it to send ALL the page data? I have searched everywhere in
the settings, the dox, and on the web, and no one else seems to have
mentioned this problem. The folks at Adobe tech support never heard of it.
Any ideas?
Peter
I'd post this anyway... I found the solution to this problem on the Adobe
forums. It appears that the default definition for US Letter has been
changed, and the bottom margin is now wider. The problem can be resolved
either by creating a new custom page size with the margins appropriate to
your printer, or by cloosing "Page Setup" and explicitly specifying your
printer there, rather than leaving it as "Any Printer."
Hope this helps someone. It helped me.
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sycochkn
Are you setting page scaling to none?
Bob