Adobe Acrobat "expand small images"

Doesn't seem to be working when I print.

[Alligator Dream]

Having searched the forums, it seems like this forum is the one most people use to ask questions about .pdfs, hope I'm not in the wrong place.

I'm using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 at work (upgrading is not a possibility, apparently, as my boss doesn't want to pay for anything, ever).

We receive a lot of faxes as .pdfs, and they're often shrunk down by the senders' fax machines. I'm trying to crop the pages in Acrobat and then use the "expand small pages to paper size" feature so that they'll, well, expand a little when I print them, making them a little more readable, but the feature doesn't seem to work. Even when I crop pages to just a couple of inches square, when I print them using "expand small pages to paper size," they print out a couple of inches square on letter-size paper. (However, the little preview pane in the print dialogue box does show the page expanded to letter-size proportions.)

I've searched Adobe's site, but couldn't find anything in their files that fixed this. They don't give free support on old versions of their products, and Google hasn't turned up anything either. I've played around with the print settings a lot, checking and unchecking that box, the "shrink oversized pages" box, and so forth, but so far no luck. Is there something I'm missing? Could this be a problem with the printer rather than an Acrobat issue? (The printer is an HP business inkjet 2300, if that's at all helpful, but I didn't see any information on hp.com about this either.)

[lZakl]

Can't you simply "scale" the image area when you print? I can't tell you how to do this without knowing what printer & print software you are using. And even then I might not be familiar with them. All I know is that you can scale pdf's to the paper size you are using using most print dialogs.

Now as an alternative I'd suggest placing the PDF in any other program that has a page already set up in the size that you want (ie. letter, legal, tabloid) You can use any number of programs for this. (ie. Word, Photoshop, InDesign, Quark, Corel Draw, Publisher) and scale the imported item there and just hit print.

Just a thought..

-- Zak

[Alligator Dream]

I have attempted to "scale" the image when I print, like say to 150%, but that has not had any effect.

I did say what printer I'm using -- HP business inkjet 2300.

I can try those alternatives you mentioned, but since I'm going to have to do it pretty much every single time I have to print a fax -- and I'm already taking several extra steps to making the pages readable by cropping the images and attempting to get them to enlarge before I print -- I'm really hoping to avoid having to take the additional step of importing it into a different program every time too.

Thank you for the suggestions. I just hope I or someone else can figure out why the things you're supposed to be able to do -- expand small pages, scale pages -- don't seem to be working for me.

[quark xpress viewer]

Adobe Acrobat PDF, Printing with Fit To Page

Hello, the feature that you need is within Adobe Acrobat's Print Dialog Box and it's options if you look close. You are not really scaling, the option you are looking for is Fit To Page.

Now, with regard to the cropping question. When you crop within Adobe Acrobat, the crop is only a view crop in most cases. Usually when you export that file, or print that file, it will come out with the cropped off area in view. This can be frustrating and most folks don't understand.

Good Luck.

[edited by: rogerd at 5:22 am (utc) on Mar. 27, 2005]
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