Need help with paper size

Hi wislndixie,

From Acrobat's Help file-

"Create and use a custom page size
It’s important to distinguish between page size (as defined in the source application’s Document Setup dialog box for your document) and paper size (the sheet of paper, piece of film, or area of the printing plate you’ll print on). Your page size might be U.S. Letter (8-1/2-by-11 inches or 21.59-by-27.94 cm), but you might need to print on a larger piece of paper or film to accommodate any printer’s marks or the bleed area. To ensure that your document prints as expected, set up your page size in both the source application and the printer.

The list of paper sizes available to Acrobat comes from the PPD file (PostScript printers) or from the printer driver (non PostScript printers). If the printer and PPD file you’ve chosen for PostScript printing support custom paper sizes, you see a Custom option in the Paper Size menu. For printers capable of producing very large print areas, Acrobat supports pages as large as 15,000,000 inches (38,100,000cm) by 15,000,000 inches (38,100,000cm).

Create a custom page size (Windows)
Do one of the following:
Open the Printers or Printer And Faxes window from the Start menu. Right-click the Adobe PDF printer, and choose Printing Preferences.

In an authoring application such as Adobe InDesign, choose File > Print. Select Adobe PDF as the printer, and click the Properties button. (In some applications, you may need to click Setup in the Print dialog box to access the list of printers, and then click Properties or Preferences to customize the Adobe PDF settings.)In the Adobe PDF Settings tab, click the Add button next to the Adobe PDF Page Size menu.
Specify the name, width, height, and unit of measurement. Click Add/Modify to add the custom page size name to the Adobe PDF Page Size menu. "

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Dimitri, Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions, and I got the new page set up ok. However, when I print in adobe, I still have my same problem and that is, the information I print needs to print towards the bottom of the 8.5 x 14 page and instead, it's printing midway down the page in acrobat. The source document is set up properly and prints perfect. It's just when I print to acrobat that It prints in the middle of the page rather than at the bottom. What am I doing wrong?
Mike

Hi Mike,

I'm not sure what is going on- if you set up the PDF settings as in those instructions and it is not working I'm stumped.

Hopefully someone else will jump in that has seen this or knows how to correct it.

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Try this way.

Save your Word document and close it (important!) and open Acrobat.
Chose Open and select all fileformats, than select your word document.
Acrobat starts the pdf rendering automatically.
The finished PDF will have the format you set up within word (8.5 x 14 in your case).

I tried it with a doc of 11x11cm, worked fine!