atw: Converting Word documents to PDF [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Can anyone give me some advice on converting Word documents to PDF using 
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0?

I have a pamphlet, created in Word as a double-sided 3-column A4 landscape 
sheet, and want to convert it to a PDF that folds neatly into three when 
printed. When I convert it using Acrobat's default settings, the document 
size is shown in the Print dialog box as 279.4mm x 215.9mm, while the page 
size is 296.7mm x 209.9mm  (A4). This gives me a 17.3mm gap, which makes 
the margin too big in the printed version - though it looks just fine on 
the screen. 

I then altered the conversion settings to make the Default Page Size 282mm 
x 215.9mm (an increase in width) and thought this would do the trick. But 
it seems to have made no difference - the converted document's size is 
again shown in the Print dialog box as 279.4mm x 215.9mm, as before, and 
there's still the same gap on the printed page.

Is there something I'm missing here? Maybe I'd have been better off to 
create the pamphlet using Publisher or InDesign instead of Word, but I'd 
prefer not to have to convert it now just so I can make the PDF.

Howard

Howard Silcock
Technical Writer
Zare Pty Ltd
02 6261 2073

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