Cannot print in letter size......

Hi,
Something to try.
When you print to your Brother printer look for a [i]Page Scaling[/i] (or something similar) setting.
Select "Fit to Printable Area".

A resampled JPEG (500 x 375 pixels) provides a 1.67 x 1.25 inch page size when it is converted to PDF.
When I designate my attached Epson Printer for the print job & I select "Fit to Printable Area" for [i]Page Scaling[/i] in the Print dialog
the image all but fills the letter size paper selected.

Be well...

Thank you Daka. In the interim, I got that part figured out.

But there is still one issue that is troubling. The default size of the original scanned pages, in image format it appears, is small ... something like 3.49 in X 5.20 in....(I don't have access to the file here, but these measurements are close to what I recall; it is on my other computer.)

I have tried printing a test portion of the file (it is over 1100 pages so did not try the whole thing; too darn slow) to the PDF printer. But the result is as before.

I was hoping that this process, since the view screen reflected 8.5 X 11 inch size, would result in a 'new test' file of 8.5 x 11 matching pages. But ... it did not.

I'd like to have the file's default image size to be 5 in X 7 if possible, so that I can do a dual page print on paper .... both sides ... and wind up with an overall printed book of about 300 pages versus 550 at the 8.5 in X 11 inch setting.

If 5 x 7 could be achieved, the images (of poor quality scanning) would be easier to read as compared to the 3.5 x 5.2 default size ... and having to squint.

Or even if it could be processed and re-saved at a default size of 8.5 X 11, then 2 images per side of paper would automatically be at my goal of 5 x 7.

"View Screen" is ??? - Perhaps the page preview in the Print dialog?
The page preview, for a print job to an attached (local or network) printer will reflect the page size of the paper in the selected paper tray.
For most local printers (ink jet or laser) this is generally letter size (in the U.S.A.). So, off course we see content previewed in context of that.
After all the preview is of what is going to the paper in the printer's selected "tray".
The Print dialog's preview has no correlation to the PDF page size; nor to the the dimensions of the image object contained within the PDF page.

While you can re-fry the PDF to a different page size via the Adobe Printer, that does not change the relative size of the image within the PDF page(s).
Regardless, you may want to see for yourself so...
In Acrobat you'd go into Print Setup. There you'd select a page size or a PostScript Custom Page Size.
Select page orientation. Click Properties. Select desired Distiller joboption and desired configuration under the Adobe PDF Settings tab.
Go to Pape/Quality tab. Select Black & White or Color. If doing a custom page size, click on Advanced.
In the Advanced dialog, click the Edit Custom Page ... button.
In the dialog, enter desired width and length of the custom page size. Click OK.
"OK" out of all open dialogs.
Then File > Print -- In the Print dialog, Adobe PDF is selected.
Preview will show the configured/selected page size.
Configure scaling of content (the image).
[i]if you've idle time, use the Advanced button - try different configurations to see what they do to the output PDF - *neat* stuff[/i]
Click OK.
Stuff happens - then Save As dialog - Save

So, you have some 1100+ pages, in a PDF, of images.
You'd like to resize each and have more than one image on each PDF page.
You'd like to end up with a reduce page count for the PDF file.
You'd like to then duplex print (2-sided) to hardcopy.

One way to get this done.
Open the original PDF. Do a Save As to create a working copy.
With the working copy open:
Adjust the Page Display.
View > Page Display & try Single Page Continuous or Two-Up Continuous.
Play with the Page Magnification.
Select the TouchUp Object tool (Tools > Advanced Editing)
Select the image on PDF page one.
Position cursor at a corner. You want the cursor to be a double-headed arrow.
Click-drag to resize the image.
Cursor into selection zone; want the 4-headed arrow.
Position image as desired on page 1.
Go to page 2's image. Select image, resize, move it to page 1.
Continue.
1100+ images later you have two images per PDF page and some empty PDF pages.
Deleted the empty pages.
Print to hard-copy (2-sided).

Moving images selected by the TouchUp Object tool:
Click-drag
Arrow keys
Ctrl + Arrow key
With focus on selection, right click, from menu - cut, then to desired page & past
(may still have to Ctrl + Arrow key to nudge the selected object to its new home)

If you have a photo editing program installed.
Go into Acrobat's Preferences > Touchup & use the Choose Image Editor button to browse to and select the application.
Now, when you've selected an image with the TouchUp Object tool you can right click and select "Edit Image".
Resize image in the photo editor. Saved changes are reflected in the image in PDF.
Then move the image to desire location.

Remember, resize of an image affects the image's effective resolution.
These changes may adversely impact both what is viewed on the screen and what goes to paper.

Given that there are some rather capable PDF developer folks about there may well be
a programmatic approach to the task. I suspect it might be what Thom Parker alludes to as
"non-trivial". If so, you handcraft it yourself, hire it out, or use TouchUp tool more than you might really want to .Be well...

I have been having a similar problem but it has to do with scanning. The defaults on both the scanner and my pdf are set at 8.5 x 11. When I scan it comes in as 8.5 x 14. If I print then the size of the document shrinks to less than 8.5 x 11 because it shrinks to fit to the page. The change the page size option is grayed out. Could you please e-mail that you have posted a possible solution instead of just putting the answer on the blog? sihoner [at] gmail [dot] com

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