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November 16, 2024
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Adobe acrobat adds margins when I go to print

  • November 16, 2024
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I created a booklet with the exact margins I need, and it shows up on my screen in acrobat exactly as I created it. Great. Except...when I go to print, the print preview shows some weird margins. They're not even equal all the way around, they're bigger on one side. So it adds margins in when printing, and only when printing.

I have spent HOURS trying to figure out how to solve it with no changes.

It does it on my husbands computer too, but the margins it adds on his computer are a little smaller than on mine, using the same settings.

But it doesn't add margins when I print from any other program, so it's not my computer, and it's not the PDF, and it's not the printer. The problem HAS to be with Acrobat.

Doing a google search just gives me instructions for settings under the "edit" tab that aren't there.

I can't open and print from Chrome, because it doesn't give me booklet options. I don't have any other PDF reader and shouldn't have to anyway. I'm paying for acrobat, for crying out loud, and I don't have any extra space on my hard drive for another program anyway.

In this screenshot of the print preview, you'll see everything in the white is my original PDF. The grey are the margins it adds.

Any ideas??

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S_S
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Community Manager
November 20, 2024

Hi @thatgirltatiana,

 

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

 

When printing in booklet mode, it is fairly natural to get margins on every side. 

For example, if you pick any hardcover or paperback book from any publication, does it not contain empty spaces on every side of the page? Booklet printing works on the exact same principle.

 

If this is not what you are looking for, please feel free to share your feedback here: https://adobe.ly/4fSYKJo to ensure it reaches the dev team for review and future implementation.


-Souvik

Participant
December 1, 2024

I'm talking about additional margins. Of COURSE every booklet is going to have margins. You must think me very inept indeed to think that I don't recognize that every booklet is going to have margins. But I already put in the exact margin specifications that I need when creating the PDF, and now my computer is trying to add ADDITIONAL margins, and margins that don't even make sense (the right side has more space than the left, top, and bottom), so that says to me this isn't just some default, something is wrong. I just can't figure out what.

S_S
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 2, 2024

@thatgirltatiana Acrobat, by default, adds margins to the pages when printing in booklet mode.

 

So, you can skip adding margins manually to the pages, as there are set dimensions to the margins for every type of page you want to print through Acrobat.

 

-Souvik