Shrink document feature when adding footer causes page contents to be centered vertically - ugh!

We also see this and I have spent countless hours researching and testing. I have an open ticket with Adobe (demonstrated it for them March 2023 and this seemed to be a completely new to them). I am pretty sure this has to do with Headers and Footers. For instance, a Word document containing existing headers and footers which is converted to PDF will be fine since these seem to 'anchor' the page content. However, this depends on HOW the Word doc is converted to PDF....Acrobat plugin in Word is not good!) But not all PDFs are created the same and you can't control this - not to mention it can vary from page to page within the same file. Some pages center (vertically AND horizonally) while others are fine. Often you don't even notice this if there is enough content on the page that the centering is imperceptible. 

I did receive an email yesterday that their engineers are looking into it, fingers crossed. In the meantime, there are other programs that do not have this problem and the workaround of creating invisible header/footer BEFORE using the shrink does work but adds time and inefficiency since you don't know you'll have the problem until after you try it.

I will update the page here when Adobe fixes this! 

Hi, this is also an issue when using shrink while bates stamping. I found this workaround where you first insert an 'invisible' (white font) character in the footer AND THEN proceed again with your 'real' job with shrink selected:

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Why-page-center-I-choose-shrink-document-option-headers-footers-section-q226658.aspx

While this helps, it is not a perfect fix (depending on the page content, you might still have centering vertically or horizontally). I found that putting an 'invisible' header/footer character in ALL FOUR CORNERS helps.

Adobe needs to address this, it creates a lot more work than should be necessary.

FYI, will note that Nuance/Kofax does not seem to have this issue. 

This issue is still happening today.  So aggravating that this hasn't been fixed yet.  

You can make a feature request for future Acrobat versions here:

https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac

Are you comfortable with InDesign? As a work-around, you could place your pdf into InDesign and add the footer and/or header to the master page, then export to a new pdf.

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hi - i just posted this exact same question - did you ever resolve your issue? i see no one ever responded.