Print doesn't really 100% print what it should

[GeertVc]

Hi,

I started to use PDF-XChange Viewer since yesterday and I'm very impressed about the features even the free version has. But there's one thing that I'm having problems with: exact printing.

When I have a document in OpenOffice with page format equal to A4 and I print it using the "Export directly as PDF" button, then I can see the document exactly as it is in PDF-XChange Viewer.
However, when I ask PDF-XChange Viewer to print the document, then I see that some parts of the document are not on the paper.
When looking at the print dialogue box in PDF-XChange Viewer, then I see that the document is smaller than A4. Only when I select "Fit to printer margins" or "Reduce to printer margins" (what's the difference between those two options, by the way?), then I see my complete document in the preview. But then, my document is kind of "deformed", since it's not 100% any more.

I was wondering why the canvas in the print dialogue is showing exactly the measurements of an A4 format, while the document is not completely filling that canvas? See the red area next to the left, right and bottom of the document in the first image below.
Why is that not completely filled? My document is anyhow a "real" A4 format, so it should fit the red area....
That's just my problem, I guess...

Pls. have a look at the below images and you will soon see/get what I'm talking about:



The above image shows the red canvas and my "chopped off" document, where the margins are not what they should be and where the footer is not displayed. This, while the A4 red canvas area is not completely filled with my A4 document.



The above image shows a scaled document, where I do correctly see the margins and also the footer. But the document is deformed and is not my original, real A4 document any more (here, the canvas is not red any more, but white instead...).

If that could be explained/solved, then PDF-XChange definitely becomes my default PDF viewer (Adobe, I'm terribly sorry... ).

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

It depends of the selected printer. Almost all printers have a 'margin' - the area where printer cannot print on the paper (this area, for example, is used to feed the paper inside the printer).

[GeertVc]

It depends of the selected printer. Almost all printers have a 'margin' - the area where printer cannot print on the paper (this area, for example, is used to feed the paper inside the printer).

Indeed, you're right. I found it in 2 different ways:

1. when I changed the scaling above 100%, I saw the red area becoming bigger than the A4 size
2. when I looked into the printer manual (HP Deskjet 710C), I saw there was a minimum margin that had to be respected.

That was causing the "problem" (which, in fact, is no problem at all...).

Thanks for the explanation. PDF-XChange Viewer is from now onwards my default PDF viewer!

[Chris - PDF-XChange]

Excellent to hear