Word to Pdf conversion - Margin diffeence

[_Narayanan_]

Hi,

I am in the process of converting some word documents to pdf, but the top margin is not consistent b/w word and pdf i,e pdf have greater margin than the base word document. could any one help me in getting the pdf with the same margin as of wrod document after converting.

I'm using Acrobat Disteller 7.0

[Bill12]

I am not sure why you are talking about using Acrobat Distiller 7. But let me get back to the issue.

1. Select the Adobe PDF printer in the print menu. Then go back and check your document (WORD will reflow a document to best fit).

2. Check the paper size of the WORD document versus the PDF document. I suspect that you did not select the proper paper in the Adobe PDF printer properties. Maybe you are trying to use A4 and the paper in the printer is Letter.

3. You should either print to the Adobe PDF printer or use PDF Maker (the Adobe icon in WORD) to create the PDF. Do not print to file, just print to the printer and the conversion process should automatically be started.

[_Narayanan_]

Hi Bill,

As mentioned Im printing to Adobe PDF printer onlyy after conversion if we match the word document with the pdf converted we could see margin difference (pdf have larger margin)

[_rfox01_]

I'm not understanding what you mean by "printing to Adobe PDF printer onlyy after conversion". Do you mean you send the file to Distiller to get a PDF and then printing through Adobe PDF again? Why?

Anyway, if you're using Distiller, I'm guessing that you first "print" the Word file to a Postscript file and then convert that through Distiller.

Check the printer driver settings you're using. It may have a largeer non-printable area than what you have on your Word doc so that it shrinks the contents to fit into that area.

[_Narayanan_]

No my question is, I just converted one normal word document to pdf with default settings and found the converted pdf have larger margin than the word document.

[Bill12]

OK, to go back to my question. Did you check that the paper in the printer properties of the Adobe PDF printer was the same as you had selected. I do not know the paper size you are trying to use or the size you ended up with (can check by moving cursor to lower left of PDF window). If the paper sizes are different, that is likely the problem.

[_Narayanan_]

Yes, Both the page layouts are Letter format only 8.5 * 11.0 in

[Bill12]

OK, that eliminates one common problem.

Have you checked Scale to Paper Size on the print menu? That is another possibility.

[_Narayanan_]

Yes, I checked with both No Scaling & Letter option. The result is same.

[Bill12]

I am getting stumped. Do you have a sample document and PDF that you could post on the web for us to look at? It might be possible to simply post a document with a step list of the buttons you used (and settings if known) that were used to create the PDF if that document also has the problem.

[_de_Siem_]

I think the OP should still go trough Bill's suggestions from post 1 and recreate the pdf. Then print that pdf with the print settings as suggested later.

[_Narayanan_]

Hi,

I tried it from scratch and found that both word and pdf have same margins but while printing to any printer the margin increase in pdf i,e whenever i change the printer from pdf to any printing printer the size of pdf in preview changes from 100% to 94% so I think the margin increase. any suggestion for this to print in real printer with 100%.

Thanks all for your intial help.

[Bill12]

That usually happens with the wrong selection under Page Handling>Page Scaling. That is all I see based on your comment.

[_de_Siem_]

best thing to do:
in Word tools>options>compatibility
deselect 'use print metrics for layout. (repeat for any machine word is installed on which you use.)

open word and create a pdf. Check page size of pdf and ensure it's the same page size of the word document.

When printing from Acrobat disable all scaling options and rotate options as well.

print the Word document as well.

Compare hardcopy from Acrobat and word. For me this always results in exactly the same output from Acrobat and word.