How to change Margins in PDF?

[_Erik_Little_]

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

[_Gloria_Mc_ · Accepted solution]

Erik,
The others have (hopefully) made it clear to you that Acrobat is not a word processing or document layout program; (as Geo said) it's a document display program. If you have access to the source file from which the PDF was created, then change the margins in that file.

If no source, then -- at the risk of stating the obvious -- if you are trying to conserve paper, is the font of the document large enough that you could print two (cropped) pages of your document per physical page? That is an option for many printers. Also, printing two-sided. Just look at your printer's properties - hopefully you will find one or both of these options.

--GMc

[Francisco28038131ncuq]

I was printing using a photocopier (Canon iR-ADV C5860) that can hole punch, and the holes were being punched into the text.

I solved it by going into advanced printing preferences and changing the Gutter size in mm. I increased the Gutter by a couple of millimetres and it reduced the entire page anchored to the right side of the page rather than the top left.

Mind you, *everything* was reduced (text became smaller) all proportions & aspect ratio intact. Think of treating the page like an image and reducing the entire image.

[ABDUL32976885i0qu]

In Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional, you can adjust the margins of a PDF document by using the "Crop Pages" tool. To access this feature, go to the "Document" menu, select "Crop Pages," and then you can manually adjust the margins by entering new values or by dragging the margins' edges to your desired size. This will help you reduce wasted paper and make your PDFs more efficient.