Saving slides to pdf

[peter.mac]

I'm running PowerPoint version X and need to save a few PP
presentations to pdf. When I create the pdfs, the slides have a white
frame around them. The original slides in PP do not. How do I create a
pdf file with slides that are not "framed".

Thanks

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

The ability to save as PDF is a result of the printer driver. Can your
printer do "full bleed" printing (edge-to-edge of the paper)? If so,
then set your printer to use full bleed before making the PDF.

-Jim

 

[peter.mac]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for that. I've got 2 Brother HL-1470N lasers, a Lexmark Z65n ink
jet, and a Brother MFC-6800 ( oh yeah, and a Epson C84 in a box
somewhere). Surely one of these does full bleed. Where do I find the
setting? I don't see it in the list of print options.

Thanks,
Peter

 

[peter.mac]

Does anyone else have an idea about how to make this work? I've looked
everywhere I can think of in my printer settings and even did a Google
search on the topic, but no luck. I can't be the only one with this
issue, am I?

Maybe there is a way to load a driver for a printer I don't have, but
supports full bleeds? Any ideas there.

Help, I need to get this project done.

Thanks

 

[robers]

Peter
Most printers have what is called a "printable area" based on the design of
the printer. This controls how close to the edge you can print. The printer
cannot lay ink down where the device that rolls the paper through the
printer needs to grip the paper. This is why the widest you can print on an
inkjet printer is in the range of .7 inches top, bottom left or right. Some
are more and some are less. Laser printers usually have a .5" or smaller
area considered as unprintable. The driver is sensitive to this and will
either truncated the image to fit, or scale it to fit in the allowable image
area.

You need to look for a printer or a driver at least, that can be set to
borderless printing. Some of the more expensive photo quality printers may
have this. Even so, you may only get true borderless printing on three
sides.

You can query the internet for printers that support this option, such as
http://www.hp.com/united-states/ize/steps_borderless_printing.html

Good luck,

Bob

 

[Brian Marshall]

I think that this "problem" is easier fixed on the pdf itself. The current
versions of both Acrobat Pro and Preview allow one to crop all the pages of
a file at once. So I think you can fix the problem this way rather than
trying to find a "marginless" printer driver. For example, if you open the
pdf in Preview and draw a selection rectangle that exactly matches the
content of each page, you can then execute the Crop command and it will ask
you if you want to crop all the pages.

Brian