Printing Pdfs

Thank you. There is so much in the Print dialog it's easy to get lost. Here's a map (I've posted a new picture for you to see, with marks on it).

First, I can see that Safari has made a huge PDF from the page, maybe 90 inches long. That's nothing to do with Reasder, it just has to work out how to print this...

A. The scale 12% shows you what scale will be used - you can't change it THERE, but you can change it elsewhere

B. 8.5 x 11 inches is the size of your printer paper. You can see from the preview that Reader wants to print the whole page, and has to shrink it to only 12% to fit it all.

C. Page size and handling is where most of the control is done.

D. Is where you choose the basic style of printing. "Size" is the usual thing, and means print each page of the PDF on one piece of paper (what people most often want), but can choose the size.

E. Fit is the option you've got right now. It says "scale the page to fit", and this means it must be 12%.

F. If you want it bigger you can choose a different scale by clicking on "Custom scale" and typing a number.

But this probably isn't what you really want, since a bigger scale will cut off information.

What you might really want is LOTS of pieces of paper instead of one. And that's another story, but what you need to click is "Poster" right next to "Size" (D).