Why does printing multiple pages per sheet reduce the image?

[Philenlo]

Two 5.5x8.5 pages should print 2-up on 8.5x11 WITHOUT reducing the image size. Basic page imposition! (I'm talking about Acrobat DC, specifically.)

[Adorobat]

Hi Philenlo ,

Are you printing two 5.5x8.5 size image on one 8.5x11 sheet?

Could you please post a screenshot here?

What version of Acrobat DC do you have? What OS do you have - Windows/Mac?

Try to print to Adobe PDF and check if its printing in the same manner.

Thank You!

Shivam

[Philenlo]

Hi Shivam,

Attaching 2 files, the customer file I received and the result when I

print 2-up to Adobe PDF. OS is Windows 10 and Acrobat DC is up-to-date

although as I told you this issue has been there as long as I remember

in earlier versions as well. It seems that printing to a "booklet" is a

true page-imposition tool but the "Multiple" tool is not but rather

gives a sheet full of reduced (and optionally bordered) pages.

Professionals need to be able to do true page imposition. This is not a

Xerox problem but rather a design feature of Acrobat that needs to be

looked at. Keep the current tool if you want but give us a true

"imposition" tool.

Phil

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

The answer is very simple.

Acrobat does not currently provide a true page imposition tool. How Acrobat reduces page sizes has to do with imageable areas as defined by the printer driver and as such, even if you are trying to do a booklet of 5.5x8 pages on 8.5x11 paper, Acrobat reduces the page sizes to accommodate the non-printable margins.

There are third party plugins to Acrobat that perform this and much more sophisticated imposition functions.

          - Dov

[Philenlo]

That's what I've been trying to say! But why can't Acrobat add those

functions?

[Dov Isaacs]

We are considering it!

          - Dov

[Philenlo]

Thx!