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change font size during pdf generation

rockhammer
Registered: Oct 23 2007
Posts: 35

I am generating pdfs of web pages by printing to Adobe PDF.

Is there a way to choose a smaller font size so that more words fit into a row?

I see option in preferences for scaling but that shrinks the entire page rather than font size.

Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Something to look over.

With Acrobat 8
(1) Open Acrobat (don't need a PDF open).
(2) File > Create PDF > From Web Page.
(3) Create PDF from Web Page dialog displays.
(4) Click "Settings" button (lower right of dialog).
(5) Web Page Conversion Settings dialog appears.
(6) Confirm that File Type Settings shows "HTML" highlighted; select if not.
(7) Click the "Settings" button that is adjacent to the pane listing file types.
You may have to wait a wee bit for the next dialog window to appear - it *will* show.
(8) HTML Conversion Settings dialog appears.
(9) Click the "Font and Encoding" tab.
(10) The third pane down ("Font Size") may be useful.

With Acrobat 9
(1) - (2) - (3) - (4) - (5) above, then:
(6) In the General tab, for Conversion Settings, confirm "File Type" is HTML.
(7) Click the "Settings" button. You may have to wait a wee bit for the next dialog window to appear - it *will* show.
(8) The HTML Conversion Settings dialog appears.
(9) In the second pane (Language Specific Font Settings) the Base Font Size selection may be useful.

Be well...

Be well...

rockhammer
Registered: Oct 23 2007
Posts: 35
Thanks daka630.

I'm trying to follow your steps but am hitting a snag. My acrobat is crashing at step 7. I will need to speak to my sysadmin about this.

In case you can shed light, the crash pop ups are:
1) the standard windows "Acrobat 8.1 has encountered a problem and needs to close..."
2) if click on "to see what data this error report contains", get this...
AppName=acrobat.exe
AppVer=8.1.0.137
ModName=colltype.dll
ModVer=5.3.74.1
Offset=00035450
3) clicking on technical info link gets location of a text file dump too big to include here.

Thanks. Will let you know.
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi,
Your Acrobat install appears to be behind in updates.
The problem you've encountered may well have been addressed in one of the Acrobat 8.x updates.
[url=http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows]Acrobat for Windows downloads of updates[/url]You'd want to step through the outstanding Acrobat 8.x updates in sequence.
Doing so may very well resolve the issue.
It appears that you'd need:
--| 8.1.1
--| 8.1.2
--| 8.1.3
--| 8.1.4
--| 8.1.5
--| 8.1.6
--| 8.1.7
--| 8.2
--| 8.2.1
--| 8.2.2
and finally
--| 8.2.3

If you "box" is "locked" get an IT "ticket" to have someone sit at the box and process through the updates.

Be well...

Be well...

rockhammer
Registered: Oct 23 2007
Posts: 35
I kept trying and trying but the latest version I can get it to update to is 8.1.4. When I do Help->Check for Updates, it brings up an empty list of updates.At 8.1.4, I'm still crashing when following those steps you outlined.

Thanks.