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kieskeurig
kieskeurig
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February 20, 2026
Question

Suddenly adobe acrobat only wants to use A4 as the paper size

  • February 20, 2026
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Hi,

 

I was printing some stuff with adobe acrobat, as I do almost every day. Everything went smoothly, until I had to edit something within a PDF, tried to print it again, but Acrobat refuses to print to A3. I put everything right: in the printer settings it says A3, paper settings A3 etc. I even tried to set A3 at the adobe PDF printer & scanner settings, but to no avail. He wants to keep printing everything to 215,9 x 279,4 mm. I don't know how to change it, I feel like i've tried every setting but he keeps wanting it to be smaller size!! I really need to be able to print A3… is there an easy fix? 

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    creative explorer
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    creative explorerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 20, 2026

    ​@kieskeurig If the paper size is off a mm, for example A3 is 297 x 420 mm  but your A3 strangely got changed and nudged to 297.1 x 420.1mm (in inches, 11.69 x 16.5 in)  it would get bumped into the next size. Turn off ‘Choose paper source by PDF page size’
     


    You might need to double-check the size or change to Fit, Shrink oversized pages
     


    Your document is trying to print Letter size:
     

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    The next case scenario is purge Acrobat Preferences (it will be reset to your factory settings) — maybe it got corrupted? Sometimes, preferences have their own little weirdness! 

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