Creating odd page sizes from Word to Acrobat

[Holfordm]

I have a document sized 51x25cm in Word. I have also created this page size in Acrobat Printer properties page size. When i try to print it refuses to change the sizefrom 11x17. Please can anyone help?

Mark

[Dov Isaacs]

Don't print to PDF! Use the Acrobat PDFMaker functionality installed into Word by Acrobat. That should solve this particular problem.

          - Dov

[Holfordm]

Many thanks for this Unfortunately this is fine for an ordinary pdf but if you want to produce "Press Quality", it does not work. I have however found a way which requires that you change the "one page per sheet" to "Scale to Paper size" and pick the size you are printing - all of which is not obvious!!

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

This depends on what you mean by Press Quality. Printing to PDF loses live transparency as well as any and all ICC color management. You may be specifying Press Quality as the Joboptions for Adobe PDF, but the fact is that you are not getting what 21st century PDF workflow would consider “press quality” in any way.

Using the Acrobat PDFMaker with Acrobat Pro DC even with the Standard joboptions will yield a much higher quality (for printing) PDF file than any printing to Adobe PDF. R=G=B text and vector is converted to grayscale (i.e., CMYK=(0,0,0,K), placed CMYK raster imagery is passed through as CMYK, placed ICC profile tagged raster imagery is passed through as-is (for proper color management during printing's RIP process), and native RGB is Word is tagged as ICC sRGB.

          - Dov