Hello, there have always been issues getting the ‘save’ feature to recognize my custom page size, whether from a pdf itself or a word doc. (I print to tiff format). I thought that by taking the update that this issue would go away. Unfortunately, now it doesn’t work at all. Why would you have a feature of being able to choose ‘custom postscript size’, change the size, available when it doesn’t work? I have also tried the custom size in the option properties to no available. You indicate that you have to create a new paper format but you do not indicate where this Print Management—>Server settings is located. Am I missing something? Would really appreciate your help, thank you. B
Hi,
the Print Management is part of windows. (it is a bit hidden, in Win7 put Print Management into the search box)
The “custom postscript size” (set in the printer properties) should also work, but it will not get saved permanently unless you do it from the control panel (not while printing).
The custom size in the PDFCreator options will only cut off everything extending the defined size.
regards,
Robin
I also have the same problem. Trying to convert an original that is sized to 40x48 in the creating app. Select pdfCreator as the printer, Select postscript custom page size and set to 40x48 for a poster. It prints an 8.5x11 piece of the large poster. Is that what Robin’s final sentence is intended to suggest? That it will crop to a page size set somewhere in Windows Print Management? This is not what it should be doing and not what I get with alternatives that also use GhostScript. (and not what I have gotten is previous iterations of pdfCreator.)
Hi,
no it will crop to the size set in the PDFCreator options, if "use fixed paper size " is checked.
The windows print management is only needed to permanently define new paper formats.
It is important to click apply on every step if you are setting the postscript custom page size.
regards,
Robin
Robin
OK, let me be very clear about what I am doing and maybe you can tell me where I am going wrong. This is a specific example, but the same occurs with different specific apps, files, usw. I am using pdfC 1.7.1 on Win7/64.
1. I start with a pdf that is properly sized to 44 in x 51 in. (pdf output from MS Powerpoint)
2. I open it in Adobe Reader and the properties show the 44x51 page size.
3. In Reader, I select Print > select PDFCreator as the printer > select printer properties
4. In Paper/quality tab, click Advanced button.
5. Select Papersize: PostScript Custom Page Size and click Edit Custom Page Size.
6. In the dialog, set width = 44 in and height = 51 in. Click "OK" to exit dialog > click "OK" to exit 'PDFCreator Advanced Document Settings' dialog >..click "OK" to exit PDFCreator Document Properties dialog.
7. Select "Print" button in print dialog, where the Preview Image shows the whole 44x51 output fitting nicely onto the page.
8. I save the PDFCreator output file to my desktop and open it with Adobe Reader and I see only the upper left corner of the poster with document properties telling me that it is 11x8.5.
When I do exactly the same steps with BullZip, I see the whole poster, properly sized, etc. I have opened PDFCreator directly and looked for any options that might affect this behavior, but have found none. Where would I find "use fixed paper size"?
dave
Hi,
the setting “use fixed paper size” is located in options->program->document->document properties 2.
I followed your procedure step by step and here the output is the correct set size (tested printing from firefox,adobe and chrome WIN7/64), so I am a bit clueless why this isn’t working for you.
regards,
Robin
Hmmm. "Use Fixed Paper Size" was the culprit. When I unchecked that, then it allowed the Postscript custom paper size to work. I must admit to not understanding the usage of this pdfC setting or when it became the default on my machine. The peculiar glitch is the print preview, which does not seem sensitive to the "Use Fixed Paper Size" in PDFCreator. (Did you observe that?) I now have to determine how to make the default "letter" rather than A4, but that has probably been discussed frequently.
Thanks for your help, dave
Hi,
yes it is a bit compicated with too many places and possibilities to set the page size, we have redesigned this in our new PDFCreator.
Depending where you are printing from, there might be an option “automatically convert letter to A4” (which is on by default in word as far as i know).
regards,
Robin