How to maintain page size when saving as pdf?

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August 2, 2017
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I am having some trouble with maintaining page size (artboard size?) of .pdf's that I create using Illustrator. I made an illustrator document with an artboard size of 57.5 x 12.5 inches, and I need it to be printed at that exact size. However, when I save as a .pdf and view the page size in adobe reader, it says the page size 22.64 x 4.93 inches. What am I missing when I am saving my file as a pdf that is causing the page size to change? Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer Rosemary3689117608kz

I found a solution after spending hours trying to work out why the exported PDF was printing smaller than the original. I'd removed any marks/bleeds; that wasn't the problem.

Eventually I noticed that when I went to print the file in Acrobat, that the size had defaulted to Fit. Selecting Actual size solved the problem 🙂

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Rosemary3689117608kzCorrect answer

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I found a solution after spending hours trying to work out why the exported PDF was printing smaller than the original. I'd removed any marks/bleeds; that wasn't the problem.

Eventually I noticed that when I went to print the file in Acrobat, that the size had defaulted to Fit. Selecting Actual size solved the problem 🙂

Luke Jennings

Inspiring

I think your Adobe Reader units preference is set to Centimeters, or vice versa.

FYI, here is some good info about the various PDF boxes:

Thinking outside the page box: a guide to PDF page boxes | Enfocus

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pedley_s

Inspiring

Nice catch -

I'm sure you are right - 57.5 cm = 22.64 inches

And 12.5 cm = 4.92 inches

schroef

Inspiring

Im running into this same issue. Im using metric and using cm. I need to deliver a file in 1/10 scale. Though all measurements are correct. When the PDF is saved without Bleed, the pagesize in Acrobat is suddenly changed.

In illustrator the dimension are 32.21 x 3.44cm but in Acrobat they are 30.206 x 3.440 cm. Some how its adds a 3rd decimal and numbers arent rounded anymore?

Ill check what happens when I work in MM, perhaps that helps.