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December 20, 2018
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Printing borderless booklet PDFs

  • December 20, 2018
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I'm trying to print booklets without border at work. We have previously done this, so I know we have the capability. The image on the PDF displays as edge to edge, but no setting (fit, etc) gets rid of the borders. I have tried cropping, resizing, scaling, every solution I can find. Thoughts?

Note: Am currently working on Adobe Acrobat Pro on Windows 10, and printing on an office Ricoh printer with booklet capabilities.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

The underlying problem is that Acrobat's booklet printing capability takes into account the unprintable margins specified for the printer. It shrinks the full logical pages in your PDF file into only the printable area of the physical page as opposed to the full physical page, even if your original content has wide, white margins!

There are a few workarounds.

  • In Windows, define a custom page size, let's say 11x17-No-Margin for which all the Printer area margins are set to 0.00, but retaining the actual page dimensions (in this case 11 inches by 17 inches. Assuming 8.5 x 11 pages, Acrobat won't try to shrink the pages, but rather, place them side-by-side at full size on the 11 x 17 sheet. Note that this might not work with all printer drivers.

  • Use the printer's built-in booklet maker. Many larger office MFPs have such functionality.

  • Impose the PDF file into a new PDF file representing the imposed booklet. This typically requires a third party page imposition product such as Quite Imposing Plus or PDF Snake.

     - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
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December 20, 2018

The underlying problem is that Acrobat's booklet printing capability takes into account the unprintable margins specified for the printer. It shrinks the full logical pages in your PDF file into only the printable area of the physical page as opposed to the full physical page, even if your original content has wide, white margins!

There are a few workarounds.

  • In Windows, define a custom page size, let's say 11x17-No-Margin for which all the Printer area margins are set to 0.00, but retaining the actual page dimensions (in this case 11 inches by 17 inches. Assuming 8.5 x 11 pages, Acrobat won't try to shrink the pages, but rather, place them side-by-side at full size on the 11 x 17 sheet. Note that this might not work with all printer drivers.

  • Use the printer's built-in booklet maker. Many larger office MFPs have such functionality.

  • Impose the PDF file into a new PDF file representing the imposed booklet. This typically requires a third party page imposition product such as Quite Imposing Plus or PDF Snake.

     - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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