Reducing margins when printing multiple pages on one sheet

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Reducing margins when printing multiple pages on one sheet

When I print a pdf document from Preview, a document from Pages, or from any other application and select the Layout-> Pages Per Sheet as 2, 4, or more, very large margins are put around each sheet and between the pages on the sheet. If these margins could be reduced, the print size would be bigger. Is there any way to reduce these margins (say down to 1cm or so)?

MacBook, Mac Mini 2.26GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Oct 3, 2009 8:32 AM

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mahongue Author

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Oct 3, 2009 12:49 PM in response to mahongue

I figured out a way to reduce the margins. You can do it quickly by choosing Scale to Fit-> Fill Entire Paper, from the Preview settings in the print dialog box. You can also increase the scaling to make the writing fill up more of the page manually by choosing Scale -> and putting a higher percent. The preview window is helpful in showing what it will look like.

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mahongue Author

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Oct 3, 2009 12:52 PM in response to John Blanchard1

Dear John,

Thank you for your post. I was wondering how changing the paper size would help. I still want to use an 8.5 x 11" paper. I did find another solution to the problem by changing the scaling within the print dialog box. This solves my problem.

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Answer 3

Oct 3, 2009 11:36 AM in response to mahongue

Have you tried creating a custom page size? You can create one using the Paper Size menu in the Print Dialog.

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Oct 3, 2009 6:18 PM in response to mahongue

mahongue, good to read that you worked out a solution. john

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