Have you checked if there is a rogue paragraph indent value. It often happens in tables (a long outstanding Word bug) and causes words to wrap well before they approach the table or column border. You never know. >>> Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxx 14/06/07 2:25 pm >>> Thanks to both Michael and Ana for suggestions. Both of you pointed me to the printer set-up, so I checked this. But it's already set to A4 - and appears to be set to use the conversion settings I specified. What's going on here? I am still mystified. The Print dialog box has a drop-down labelled Page Scalling and I've tried None, Fit to Printer Margins and Reduce to Printer Margins. This makes a difference - but only to whether the extra space is added only to the right or added equally to both sides. Neither is what I want - I want the text to fill the space! Howard Ana Young <ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx> 14/06/2007 01:03 PM To Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: atw: Converting Word documents to PDF [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Topic TRIM File Ref Hi Howard, Not sure if this will help, but have you checked the pPrinter setup options. Adobe "prints" the document to convert it to PDF. Cheers, Ana --- Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned by MailSweeper. ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Sydney Water's Every Drop Counts Business Program Winner of the 2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award ----------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This email is confidential. If you are not the nominated recipient, please immediately delete this email, destroy all copies and inform the sender. Sydney Water Corporation (Sydney Water) prohibits the unauthorised copying or distribution of this email. This email does not necessarily express the views of Sydney Water. Sydney Water does not warrant nor guarantee that this email communication is free from errors, virus, interception or interference. -----------------------------------------------------------