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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
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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It's pretty lame that it's so buried, but you actually can change the margins through the header and footer dialog box. Go under "Documents," select "Header and Footer," and in the upper right-hand corner of the dialog box the top, bottom, right, and left margins can be changed there.
Hope that helps.
Absolutely rediculous that since the margins *can* be changed that the option is not right under the File menu, that there's no Page Setup option or something equally straightforward. I don't generally like Adobe because there are so many things like that about the program, but given that it's the industry standard for viewing scanned documents, we're kinda over a barrel with this. Really, really lame though.
I searched Adobe's program help, online help, this forum--then my co-worker pointed out that the margin settings were right there in the Header and Footer dialog box! Great co-worker. Lame program and help options.
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This only changes the Header or Footer margins, this does not change the document margins.
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I had the same problem with margins when I created a PDF from a PowerPoint file. It kept shrinking the entire page, leaving larger margins than my original file. But now I just created a PDF from a PowerPoint file with OK margins. This may sound overly simple, but I selected Print and just checked the box "Scale to fit paper", and it worked fine. The PDF now has the same margins as my original.
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I am trying to brochure print a letter sized MSWord Created doc exported to Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 with 1/2 to 1/4 inch margins. The pre-set for brochure print top and bottom margins in Acrobat appears to be 1". The Page Setup dialog box Margins setting is there, but greyed out, so not accessible to modification.
The problem is the Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 software.
Adobe, will you please fix the software so that margins can be changed when Brochure Print is the selected option.
Thanks ever so much.
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Thank you! I have been searching and searching, and finally found your comment.
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Hi,
I have a related question. I have a PDF file that has very, very tight left and right margins. I don't want to print the file, but I would like to be able to have visually pleasing margins while reading it in Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended.
I'd be happy even to be able to change the background color of the non-page area to white. I can change the background color to white on Full Screen display, but not on regular display.
Can anyone give me some tips on making the left/right margins appear wider?
Thanks in advance!
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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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Thanks Dave, that was exactly what I needed.
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This was the solution I needed. In my case I was trying to print a 6"x9" document on 8.5"x11" paper, and the original was not properly centered to start with. Cropping allowed me to remove the excess white space from the page bottoms so that scaling would center the document properly.
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People say it can't be done too much. CTDave is the MVP of this thread.
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Hmm I know this post is already outdated but I came across this problem just recently. Cropping zooming resizing is a bit crappy. Here's what I've found out / figured out:
If you have Adobe Photoshop, go ahead and open your PDF file from there. Then try and print it there. You can adjust a lot like margins scale size etc without losing your PDF quality. Print-out is as clear as the original
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Hello,
Please guide me how to increase 1/2 inch margin on the left side and reduce the same margin on the right side of Adobe Reader document, i need this for binding purposes.
Thanks.
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You can not do anything with Reader. There may be some options in your printer dialog for your printer, but there is nothing you can do with Reader. More questions on Reader should be asked in the Reader forum.
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Hi all,
My first post on the Adobe forums.
I've read the entries so far and none seem to hit the nail on the head.
My issue is that I have a fair number of documents as strung together .pdf's and I'd like to print out each document with a binding margin on the left, typically a .75" margin. This should have been a slam dunk command, but, alas, I can't find it. Some pages vary in size and I would simply print to fit an 8-1/2" x 11" page, shrinking the original to allow for the .75" binding margin.
So far, I've had to open each page in Photoshop Elements 6, add the requisite margin, then save it as an individual page, later restringing the document together. When you get to documents exceeding 100 pages, this is an insane waste of my time and there ought to be a command to take care of this enmass.
As info, I am using Acrobat 8.
Regards,
Richard
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Sounds like you have 2 steps that are needed. First, get all the pages to the same size (printing to a new PDF with the expand to fit will do this). After you get the same size pages, then use the crop tool to setup the margins. You may want to do the first print to a custom size corresponding to the size without the left margin. These are only ideas, not necessarily the best solution. The optimal solution is to fix the margins in the original document before make the PDF.
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This may not be optimal, but may meet your needs. Print your PDF to the Adobe PDF printer AFTER setting the printer properties>General>Advanced>scaling to maybe 80% or so. You can play around with calculations to what might be a good percent for the end result -- I randomly selected 75% and turned off shrink and expand to fit page. You might also select a custom page size that when scaled and cropped, would include within it the letter or A4 size that you might want for the final. Then print the PDF to a new one. In the new one, use the crop to get the top, right, and bottom margins back to where you want them. Print the result. It may be that you can try printing to another PDF and seeing how the results go (I did this with the expand to fit and got a page with a large left margin and narrow top, bottom, and right margins. These checks might include the expand to fit option and such.
If you spend a little time with measurements and such, you might find good %s to use for the print and the cropping. At least this is an alternative to try to get what you want. It worked for me in AA5 on this machine. Hope my scenario makes sense. I started out with TBRL of .75,.5,.5,.5 margins in. After 75% print and a crop of TBRL of 1.5,1.4,.36,.128 in I had about TBRL of .5, .3, 1.1, and .25 in margins. I printed to a new page with expand to fit. The end result was TBRL of 1.1, .9, 1.3, .25 in margins approximately. A better test would have been to have created a box for the margins initially and played with the scaling to get there. If you want alternating print margins, you would need to crop the even and odd pages separately.
I think that once you have gone through the process and figured out the steps and proper scalings and croppings, then it should be rather easy to do. I would test on a short document, but you should be able to do it on a large document after you set the process. You may lose some resolution and such, but at least you have your print margins. Long way to get there. I figured I would go through the process since folks ask about margins periodically. Unfortunately you can not put in negative cropping (at least in AA5 -- did not try it on AA7, 8, or 9 on my other machines), or the process would have just gotten easier.
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Dear Bill,
Thank you for taking so much time with this.
I think I see what you are trying to do. Essentially, if I read you correctly, you are pre-shrinking the document, then cropping back to keep a left hand margin. I don't know what you mean by AA5, AA6, etc. Please explain.
I do use Internet Explorer and Microsoft, as far as I'm concerned, really blundered when they introduced shrink to fit with IE 6. It wasn't until they got to IE 8 that they provided a way to shut it off. With it on, e-mail with large photo attachments would end up with tiny print when printed off.
Similarly, Adobe seems to have had a blind eye to the binding margin issue, which really should have been included as a simple command in Acrobat, or even in Acrobat Reader.
I won't be able to try your recommendations until tomorrow. If I get stuck, I'll come back for more help. Thanks for all of your efforts to assist me (and likely others) to find a work around for this issue.
Regards,
Richard
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AA5 etc are the Acrobat versions (not subversions) such as Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 (typically the latest versions). I understand your interest in a print margin, but as many others have said that is not really what Acrobat was designed for. It was designed as a viewer/creator in which an original can be viewed. However, many things folks wish to do can be done after a fair amount of fiddling, though not always the best results. For your case, it is probably not a bad solution.
I can create a document with a border margin showing (could probably use printer marks also) to demonstrate the process. If you have what your current margins and page size are, along with the new margin (I did not go back and check for any statement about them), I can probably repeat the process and post the examples.
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Hi Richard,
For your step number two you may want to look at our free automation tool "Resize Pages Tool" at-
http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/65.cfm
(Scroll down in the list for the one titled "Resize Pages Tool").
Step number 1 could aslo be solved with a custom automation tool for scaling all the pages at once, and could be combined for both steps into one custom tool. If this is something you do repeatedly and isn't a one time job, it may be worth getting such a tool developed.
Hope this helps,
Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com
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Bill@VT wrote
Sounds like you have 2 steps that are needed. First, get all the pages to the same size (printing to a new PDF with the expand to fit will do this). After you get the same size pages, then use the crop tool to setup the margins. You may want to do the first print to a custom size corresponding to the size without the left margin. These are only ideas, not necessarily the best solution. The optimal solution is to fix the margins in the original document before make the PDF.
Bill, the problem with using the printer to size the document for proper margins does not get you an electronic document with the margins adjusted. If you're dealing with an existing document and the text is laid down the length of the page and leaving 2" margins on each side