Hi
I am looking for some help on deleting the unused document page sizes which populate the drop-down menu. There are ~20 which I do use for various full-size and standard office-size documents but it's a massive waste of time scrolling through all of those unsed sizes each time.
I did some digging, and have tried to manually delete the page sizes from within the Adobe PDF printer preferences through the Windows Control Panel, but it would not allow me to remove the system-managed document sizes.
Anybody know a way ?!?
From looking at the screenshot that you've provided, it seems that you're using MS Windows.
The page sizes are not deleted from the Printing Preferences that accessed by right-clicking on the printing device icon in the Control Panel. Also, you will not be able to access Printing Preferences if for some reason the printing device drivers are corrupt or missing (manually forcing a driver update can resolve this).
But to properly delete these pages that you don't desire in your drop down list, click once on the printing device to select it, and observe that below the search bar in that same window (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers) a new toolbar ribbon will appear with additional options below.
To modify printer defined pages (as the warning message suggests in your screenshot) you need to do it from the "Print Server Properties" . See slide below:
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From looking at the screenshot that you've provided, it seems that you're using MS Windows.
The page sizes are not deleted from the Printing Preferences that accessed by right-clicking on the printing device icon in the Control Panel. Also, you will not be able to access Printing Preferences if for some reason the printing device drivers are corrupt or missing (manually forcing a driver update can resolve this).
But to properly delete these pages that you don't desire in your drop down list, click once on the printing device to select it, and observe that below the search bar in that same window (Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers) a new toolbar ribbon will appear with additional options below.
To modify printer defined pages (as the warning message suggests in your screenshot) you need to do it from the "Print Server Properties" . See slide below:
Thank you very much for the step-by-step instructions.
Although I was unable to delete various specialty page sizes ( Japanese postcard, German fanfold etc.) due to Windows system restrictions the list of available paper sizes is now cleaned up and much more usable.
Hopefully anyone else looking for an answer to this issue in the future finds the thread. Problem solved.
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