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_Erik_Little_
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December 18, 2007
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How to change Margins in PDF?

  • December 18, 2007
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Thank you in advance for your assistance. I am evaluating 8.0 Professional on my pc (XP SP2 w/ 3.5GB of RAM and 2.5GHZ CPU). I want to see if the Professional can modify margins of pdf files that I get from various places but I am not finding anything in the documentation or via google. This should be an easy thing to do, like in MS Word you go to "Page Setup" and change the margins. I cannot find this functionality in Acrobat 8.0. Can someone please tell me how to modify the margins? The document in it's present configuration wastes paper and leaves alot of it blank when it could be printed on. Trying to be a conscientious worker by not wasting paper and Acrobat is not cooperating with me.

Thanks,
Erik

    Correct answer CtDave

    Access the Crop Pages dialog (via the Crop Tool).
    The bottom pane, Change Page Size permits configuration of a custom width and height.
    Bumping out these values might meet your needs.

    Be well...

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    gkaiseril
    Inspiring
    December 18, 2007
    No, Acrobat and Reader are not like MS Word. They are page display programs. Changing the margin also changes the text wrapping and location.

    But you can change the page scaling so the PDF margins fit the printer's margins in the "Print" UI.
    Louis Morrical
    Louis Morrical
    Known Participant
    February 7, 2022

    I also have a simular question. We have thousands of PDF documents that the Police and Fire stations have already saved. But the clerk of the courts now needs a 1 inch bourder at the top of all PDF's is there a faster way to set that up within the user profile so that when a pdf is opened that the corrections has been added to the boarder or is a one document at a time fix? If so this is going to take alot of man hours to make the changes.

     

     

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    Xena1964
    Participant
    December 4, 2024

    I have Acrobat Standard DC and manipulate documents all the time. Not sure where all these, can't be done, isn't a processor, and such is coming from. Peope simply want to make the document stay at the top of the page while shrinking it enough to stay within the printable area. Use the EDIT option and click on the HEADER AND FOOTER button. Choose ADD and a window will pop up. Enter the margins you want in the MARGIN section on the top right of the window. Then click on the hyperlink that says APPEARANCE OPTIONS... . Enable the 1st checkbox that says SHRINK DOCUMENT TO AVOID OVERWRIGHTING THE DOCUMENT'S TEXT AND GRAPHICS. Enable the 2nd checkbox if you choose, then click OK. Click OK in the main window to close the ADD HEADER AND FOOTER window. Now click PRINT and select the PAGE SIZING you desire and you will see in the preview window how it is laid out and whatever space you set is now the margin.

     

    Pay around with these steps. You can add multiple files to the ADD HEADER AND FOOTER window and adjust them all at once. I'm so glad I forced myself not to accept something I KNEW could be changed!!


    Thank you so much!

     

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