Acrobat Reader DC sets a margin of 25mm when I print multiple pages. How can I alter this?

[timw42126217]

Acrobat Reader DC sets a margin of 25mm when I print multiple pages. How can I alter this setting? In Page Setup (within the Print... dialog) the margin settings are shown but greyed out and I can't change them. These are in addition to the margins in the word-processor document I exported as a PDF.

I'll post this, then try printing a PDF from somewhere else to see if matters are any different.

[RahulTyagi_]

Hi Tim,

Following links might help with this issue  :

• How to change Margins in PDF?
• Cannot adjust margins in Acrobat Reader X

Regards,
Rahul

[timw42126217]

Thanks, Rahul

Neither of the links quite answered my question, but this one: Re: Adobe Reader X 10.1.19 margins disabled gave me a clue to try looking at my printer's settings – it's an HP Envy 5330. I tried setting borderless to On, and just tried again to print my A5 booklet from Reader DC. It printed just right!

I think the margin was imposed by my printer (I had had a similar issue printing from LibreOffice) and the greyed-out 25mm margin setting made me think it was added by Reader. I'm going to seek further info from HP.

Can anyone confirm to me: Those margin settings in Print, Page Setup don't do anything and shouldn't be shown at all!

Thanks for your help,

Tim Woodcock

[davidg81283049]

How to adjust the margins when creating a .pdf file

This procedure was used when converting an Excel table into a PDF file. I believe it would work equally well in a Word document.

There are several steps but these are quite simple. First open the file from which you want to create a .pdf. Then highlight the area of the file that you want to include in the .pdf and right click/Copy.

Then go through the following steps by clicking on the various headings :-

File

Print

Expand ‘”Print Active Sheets” and select “Print Selection”

Set required orientation (Portrait or Landscape)

Expand the last box at the bottom of the section under “Settings”.

Select “Fit all columns on one page”

Click on Page Setup at the bottom of the section.

In the Page Setup that appears, click on “Margins”. Set the margins and then press OK.

Go to left hand side of window and select “Save as Adobe PDF”

Click on “Selection” under Conversion Range and then “Convert to PDF” at the bottom of the window.

Say “Yes” to the statement that “AcrobatPDFMaker needs to save the file”

Give the file a name and save to whatever folder you chose.

Bingo – you have a .pdf

If your selection doesn’t quite fit, try adjusting the margins in Excel again and/or, you can try “Fit all rows on one page”

Hope this works for you

DG

[Bernd Alheit]

How should this help users of Acrobat Reader?

[Sunny26326757tb7e]

Thanks but for me, I need to print PDF created by matrix teams; in other words, it is a challenge to ask them to change their margin. Is it possible to adjust the margins of an already created PDF?

[chrisw18898921]

Echoing the user above. Procedure for adjusting margins of a PDF I have been sent. Margins are set at 1 inch which wastes a lot of space, how to reduce them to 0.5 inch or whatever I need or whatever my printer can handle.