I often will send PDFs to clients to print and sign. I also will prepare estate planning document packages for a couple of colleagues, again sending packages of PDFs. The annoying thing is, when one tries to print from Acrobat, under Page Sizing & Handling often the selection defaults to "Fit," meaning "fit into the margins." But the documents I send already have perfectly decent margins, so when they are printed the margins expand to something like 1.5" all around, the text shrinks correspondingly, and it does not look good.
Yes, I know it's a Registry entry (iPrintScaling), but that only affects the default for printing on *my* system, not on outgoing documents.
The way to fix this is to edit the PDF being sent by (in Acrobat Pro 11) going into File/Properties, bringing up the Document Properties window. Select the "Advanced" tab, then change Page Scaling from "Default" to "None." Close and save. That document will then, by default, print Actual Size instead of "fit into the margins." (Of course the recipient can still change it, if he or she wishes.)
I have developed a certain rhythm with these PDFs: Print to PDF, document pops up, Ctrl-D (Document Properties), Alt-P (Page Scaling), N ("None"), Enter ("OK"), Ctrl-S (Save document), Ctrl-W (Close document).
But even that is annoying, especially when dealing with packages of documents. Does anyone know of a way to automate this better? Somehow set Acrobat Pro to default to No Page Scaling when *generating* documents? Create some sort of macro in Acrobat Pro to assign to a keystroke or button? Nothing of this nature seems to be available in Actions. Any other ideas?
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