Setting Print Margins for a Form

Hi Jake,

The reason you can't find the margins is that Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange. For this reason, it will work on (almost) any system and will scale to fit the output for (almost) any printer. The margins are not defined in the PDF document, but rather in the print setup for the printer, since the "margins" are actually a mechanical limitation of the print device rather than an aesthetic display. This is accessed in Linux or Windows through the "file/page setup" menus, which will display a properties box (sorry, you would need to check the manuals for other Operating Systems). Select "scale to fit" or similar and it will adjust the document to fit into the printable area for your specific selected printer.

The setting of print margins within the document is normally done through the print setup, the PDF will either re-flow the text automatically to fit into the printable area or scale the size to fit, which allows for printing of color brochures (edge to edge on the paper), standard single page documents where the left and right margins are of equal width, book-binding type documents where the left and right margins change widths on alternate pages to allow for a hole punch, etc.

For document layout purposes, there are scripting properties which will reduce or increase the left and right margins (relative to the printer defined restrictions), but the top and bottom margins are controlled and delimited by the printer driver and not the document itself.

Hopefully that answers your question :)

DaveyB

Outstanding Thank you for the quick response.