Margins

You can change the page sizes and you can add printer's marks to a PDF document for professional printing.

First, in Acrobat Professional open the Print Production toolbar. Click the Add Printer Marks tool on the toolbar and a dialog box opens. Check the marks you want to appear in the dialog box and click OK. The marks will not appear on the file because they lay outside the current page margin.

Next click the Crop Pages tool in the Print Production toolbar. The Crop Pages dialog box opens. Add the new width and height in the Change Page Size area. Click OK and your page size is changed and the printer marks now shown on the document.

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In the last upload of my book interior files to the printer, my asst. made so many mistakes over time I had to fire her, now to clean up the mess, as the book is key to my business:

Margins are too large, printed area and print size too small on every page except for the inside title page which she left just the reverse. I checked the crop pages help files but they are not clear, as I do not want to change the page size just the margin size on each page. How to make margins smaller so the printed area of the page and thus the print size will be larger, but leave the pagination and page size as is? No printer marks are currently showing on the file. Page size 6x9.

Thanks much,
drlinne2

Hi drlinne2

I came across your post when i was in search of the same answers.

Printing from Indesign to the same printer as i was printing a pdf, i discovered that the printer margins were bigger from the pdf and it was cutting of my page numbers.

All you have to do is make sure in acrobat, under File > page setup that you have your correct printer listed for the 'Format for: ' menu. Otherwise it defaults to any printer.Hopefully this solves your problem.

When I print (using Adobe 9), the margin on the right side is expanding cutting part of my document off of the rights side, as well as the bottom of some pages. I have printed both using the shrink to fit and fit to print, but it still is not working. Please help.

When I converted to PDF, I found that my margins were messed up (from page breaks in the wrong places in the Word document). Couldn't figure out how to fix it in word, so used the Crop pages feature to fix all the margins. Tedious, but doable. So, turns out, I didn't get everything right, and had to edit the word document and resave as a PDF. This means fixing the margins again. But this time, the crop function didn't work to change the margins. Why would it work once, and not the next time? Here's how I did it: clicked on crop pages. Went to bottom to
"change page sizes" and "custom," put in my margin change into the xoffset box (.2 or -.2 depending on which page), selected odd or even and inserted the page range. I did two whole books this way successfully. Now, I can't get it to work. Any ideas? Who do I talk with to get help? I called Acrobat support, and they had no idea.