**Creating pdf with graphic to edge of the page** Thanks :)

[smb]

I can easily create a pdf from the print menu in Word X, but in my
original word doc there is a graphic that goes to the edge of the
page, and in the pdf there is a margin. How can I create the pdf with
the graphic going to the edge of the page? Thanks.

 

[Elliott Roper]

I can easily create a pdf from the print menu in Word X, but in my
original word doc there is a graphic that goes to the edge of the
page, and in the pdf there is a margin. How can I create the pdf with
the graphic going to the edge of the page? Thanks.

The hard copy and the PDF should each respect the margin settings of
the selected printer precisely[1]. Did you select 'any printer'? Try
again with the same physical printer selected even when 'printing' to
PDF.
1. Provided you are not attempting to print where your printer refuses
to go.

 

[smb]

Thanks for your response, but I'm not sure what you're saying. My
print menu has my Epson Stylus Photo 1280 as the selected printer. I
have no other printers connected. I click the Save as PDF button to
create the pdf.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks for your response, but I'm not sure what you're saying. My
print menu has my Epson Stylus Photo 1280 as the selected printer. I
have no other printers connected. I click the Save as PDF button to
create the pdf.

I meant make sure you have the Epson selected as the printer before you
press the save as PDF button.

 

[smb]

I still am having the same problem. Basically, I need to make the
printable area larger so the pdf will show everything. Any idea how to
do that?

 

[Elliott Roper]

I still am having the same problem. Basically, I need to make the
printable area larger so the pdf will show everything. Any idea how to
do that?

Sorry that my advice is not working. I have two printers here, both
postscript. One, an ancient Digital Equipment LN17ps, will print right
up to the edge of the (A4) page. The other, a Brother 2600CN leaves a
5mm strip down each side of A4.

To see if I was kidding myself, I took my standard letterheaded
template and shoved the company logo's left margin to zero, hard
against the edge of the paper. Getting something like that to print was
what I thought your difficulty was.

So, if I select the LN17 in the print dialog and print to PDF, the
resulting PDF shows all the logo on the on-screen image, hard up
against the edge of the 'page'. If I select the Brother, it lops off
the leftmost 5mm of the logo when I view the PDF on screen.

This is bugging me. Try this other way:-

In Word's page set-up:-
choose your own printer, choose custom paper size, choose new, call it
something cute like 'wide thing', select it, click on printer margins,
and set the left or right or whatever to 0.
Then under paper size, choose 'wide thing'.
Back in the print dialog, print to PDF and see what happens.

grrr... intuitive or what?

 

[smb]

IT WORKED! IT WORKED!
Thank you so much for the help. I'm kind of embarassed I couldn't
figure that out on my own, but I feel so much better now!

Thank you, thank you!

 

[Elliott Roper]

IT WORKED! IT WORKED!
Thank you so much for the help. I'm kind of embarassed I couldn't
figure that out on my own, but I feel so much better now!

It was starting to annoy me. I'm the first to blame Microsoft when it
comes to inscrutable settings, but really, this is something that Apple
should get working better for every appplication. It seems that while
the service to muck about with printer margins is in the kit, Apple's
attitude is to leave it to the PPD files published by each printer
manufacturer.

This is wrong, especially when Apple has all those toys for print to
PDF. They of all people know you don't need a physical printer all the
time. Maybe they just *know* that a PDF showing stuff right to the
margin is going to make life interesting for any recipient that tries
to physically print it?

Anyhow, we are lucky that MS found a way round it. It is hard to think
of where else they could hide it, given the blurred roles Apple has
assigned to Page set-up and Print.

 

[smb]

Trust me, it was annoying me as well.

You're right, Apple should have a better way to deal with pdfs. It
would be nice if it was consistent from application to application. It
seems like there are numerous ways to remember to create a pdf for
each application.