Changing the page margins when printing

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Changing the page margins when printing

I have searched this forum and have not found an answer.

I am trying to print my resume, which is a web page, to a PDF. The default makes the page margins too narrow for my taste but no matter what I do, I cannot seem to change it. I tried to define a new paper format with a letter size and larger margins but that does not appear to make any difference at all.

It works in FireFox but the imbedded hot-links do not work like they work in Safari. Anyone have a solution?

Paul

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Posted on Feb 3, 2010 9:16 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 3, 2010 9:39 AM in response to Paul Kleeberg

I believe Safari defaults to a PDF page size of 8.5 x 11 inches and you may not be able to change that even if you define a custom page size. However, you should be able to trim the margins using Preview (and then Save As… to save those changes as a new document. or you could use Skim (although you will have to Export the file as a new PDF document if you want to save those changes.

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Paul Kleeberg Author

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Feb 3, 2010 10:11 AM in response to Golden Shoes

Great thought. Wish I could find where I could trim the margins in Preview. I could use the print function to trim the margins but all the links are removed.

Looked ad Skim and I could see where I could crop and reduce the margins but not where I could expand them. <sigh>

Paul

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Feb 3, 2010 10:18 AM in response to Paul Kleeberg

Hmmm…did you try the steps listed here, and then logout and log back in to your account to see if that makes it work?

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Paul Kleeberg Author

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Feb 3, 2010 2:42 PM in response to Golden Shoes

I had done that, defined a paper with wider margins, but I had not logged out and back in. Well, now I not only made my new sheet definition using the instructions, but I made it the default paper in the Print & Fax system preference, logged out and back in, and then even tried restarting. Safari (and interestingly all other applications) default to the standard letter size with standard margins even though my custom page with the custom margins shows as the default in Print & Fax. Sheesh!

Does anyone know of another browser that you can print to a PDF and the hotlinks within the document will remain good? They do not with Firefox.

Paul

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Paul Kleeberg Author

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Feb 4, 2010 8:41 AM in response to Paul Kleeberg

Well, I decided to put my resume in one large table cell and define the cell as having a width of 90%. That gave better looking margins.

Too bad Safari takes the ability to customize away in order to provide simplicity.

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