Word to Pdf conversion - Margin diffeence

best thing to do:
in Word tools>options>compatibility
deselect 'use print metrics for layout. (repeat for any machine word is installed on which you use.)

open word and create a pdf. Check page size of pdf and ensure it's the same page size of the word document.

When printing from Acrobat disable all scaling options and rotate options as well.

print the Word document as well.

Compare hardcopy from Acrobat and word. For me this always results in exactly the same output from Acrobat and word.

That usually happens with the wrong selection under Page Handling>Page Scaling. That is all I see based on your comment.

Hi,

I tried it from scratch and found that both word and pdf have same margins but while printing to any printer the margin increase in pdf i,e whenever i change the printer from pdf to any printing printer the size of pdf in preview changes from 100% to 94% so I think the margin increase. any suggestion for this to print in real printer with 100%.

Thanks all for your intial help.

I think the OP should still go trough Bill's suggestions from post 1 and recreate the pdf. Then print that pdf with the print settings as suggested later.

I am getting stumped. Do you have a sample document and PDF that you could post on the web for us to look at? It might be possible to simply post a document with a step list of the buttons you used (and settings if known) that were used to create the PDF if that document also has the problem.

Yes, I checked with both No Scaling & Letter option. The result is same.

OK, that eliminates one common problem.

Have you checked Scale to Paper Size on the print menu? That is another possibility.

Yes, Both the page layouts are Letter format only 8.5 * 11.0 in

OK, to go back to my question. Did you check that the paper in the printer properties of the Adobe PDF printer was the same as you had selected. I do not know the paper size you are trying to use or the size you ended up with (can check by moving cursor to lower left of PDF window). If the paper sizes are different, that is likely the problem.

No my question is, I just converted one normal word document to pdf with default settings and found the converted pdf have larger margin than the word document.