Adjusting Margins when printing in Booklet mode

Hello @Radiant_Gem771d

Hope you are doing well, and thanks for the update. Sorry the earlier suggestions haven't worked.

There's a deeper reason for this that explains why both fixes fell short: Acrobat's booklet printing feature scales your pages down to fit within your printer's unprintable margin area, even if your PDF content itself has no white space. So even after using Remove White Margins on the file, the printer driver can still be reimposing its own margins at print time. That's a different problem than the PDF's content, which is likely why neither approach fully worked.

The workaround that gets around this is to define a custom, margin-free page size in your printer driver, not in Acrobat:

1. On Windows, go to Control Panel > Devices and Printers, right-click your printer, and select Printing Preferences (or Printer Properties, depending on your printer).

2. Look for an option like Custom Page Size, Advanced, or Paper/Output.

3. Create a new custom size matching your paper's actual dimensions (for example, 8.5 x 11 inches), and set all four printer area margins to 0.

4. Save that custom size, select it as your paper size, then print the booklet from Acrobat again using that custom size.

This tells Acrobat it has the full physical page to work with, rather than shrinking pages to fit inside the printer's default margins. Not every printer driver supports zero-margin custom sizes, so results can vary by printer model.

If your printer or its driver doesn't allow this, some office multifunction printers have their own built-in booklet-maker feature that bypasses Acrobat's imposition entirely, which may be worth checking as well.

Let us know if the custom page size approach helps.

Regards,
Amal

Thank you so much. This worked for me.

OMG this worked! Thank you so much!

Hi, did you find the solution for this I'm having the same issues 😞 

The problem relates to all booklet documents. The margins are printer specific and can't be adjusted. Therefore it makes no sense to let the printer dictate the margins and thereby the scale of the printout.

I would prefer an option to print booklets at full scale (disregarding the printer margins). To address the issue of printer margins I leave an empty "safety margin" around the content instead.