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Subject:RE: TOOLS: Half size Word doc to pdf From:Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- vitana -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:30:38 -0400
Shannon Luce asks:
> >
> I need to create a .pdf from a Word doc that is 5.5 x 8.5. I want the
> .pdf
> to be 5.5 x 8.5, too. I am using Word's built-in PDFMaker. Any simple
> solutions (I know there is one, because I've done it).
>
>
A straightforward solution is to crop the PDF pages. In Acrobat 4.0, it
goes like this: Document--> Crop Pages. Specify the appropriate margin
size to give you 5.5" × 8.5" (probably L/R=1.5", Top=0, Bottom=2.5"--Word
tends to align pages to the top and centred horizontally).
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