[RESOLVED] Diffirence in printing in Word or from PDF

[MarcD]

Hello everyone,

This isnt specifically webdeveloper related but i hope i can ask this question here anyway.

For a client, i am developing a MS Word template based on their housestyle letterpaper. All elements are fitted to the exact measurements and position of the original paper.

Now here comes the problem:
When i print the file from Word, the printed version is an exact duplicate from the original paper.

But when i first save the file to a PDF and print it then, the size and positions are all wrong.

For example:
On the original (and the version printed from Word), the top-margin of the logo is 18mm from the top, left-margin: 25mm and the logo is 90mm wide.

When i print it from a PDF, the logo is only 85mm, top-margin is 34mm and left-margin 32mm.


I checked and rechecked all of the print settings in Adobe Reader, but i dont see anything that can possibly cause this to happen. My client has this same problem when printing the file, so i figure it has to do with Adobe Reader itself.


Does anyone have any idea?
Thanks a bunch.

[wcb80]

Hey MarcD
The only thing I can think of that would cause that is you have the print option in Reader set to "Scale to Fit", or something along those lines.

[MarcD]

Hey Wcb80, thanks for your reply, but that wasnt it, that was the first thing i checked.

I have figured it out though.
When converting the doc file to PDF, it was automaticly set to Letter instead of A4, which caused the shifts in scale and position.

This issue is now resolved.

Hey MarcD
The only thing I can think of that would cause that is you have the print option in Reader set to "Scale to Fit", or something along those lines.