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When I try to print a pdf (from safari or from preview) the top of page 2 and subsequent pages
is cut off.
If the PDF is in landscape -- the right side of the print is cut off.
I have talked wtih apple (mac) support and to HP support -- without any luck.
Printing the same document from a windows PC works just fine <sign>
Anyone have any ideas?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
those seem to display fine --- one difference I noticed is that those PDFs do not have
header banners and the ones I'm trying to view/print - do. i.e account info etc
You've encountered some PDF's in a format that the built-in rendering engine can't handle. You might get better results with Adobe Reader.
Thanks Linc & Carolyn -- Leave it to me to find the anomolies!
I will install adobe reader and see what happens.
I have also seen a different PDF reader in the app store -- I may try that first given the reports of issues with Adobe on Mac. Thanks again for all your help -- this has been awesome. I can't pick just one helpful comment here ... I feel like I should mark them all.
Any PDF reader in the App Store will use the built-in rendering engine and will give the same results. The only way to get different results is to use Reader (or Acrobat.)
Thanks for yet another great tip! :🙂
So glad you were able to get that straightenend out.
I was actually cheerleading from the across the bay LOL!
You are a delight to work wtih 😎
Thank you Carolyn it was great working with you! But I may be across a different bay
than you're thinking 😉 (not san fran) Or did you mean "pond" ? LOL
Any pond will do when things go this well 😉
And I learned more about PDF software too.
Susan,
Please try installing Chrome of Google.
Then open that page with Chrome, instead of Safari.
Then on Chrome's tools, click on PRINT,
A window will open and you will see 'save as pdf' option, as a button,
Click on it and a box will open, just like save as box, choose a location and save,
It will be saved as pdf, by Chrome.
No cut offs! )))
A plus; you will have the choice of margins, so you can create space on sides, to take notes!
But: If anyone help me with this, I appreciate:
Two things I am missing there: I don't have any control on font type or font size! So, I have to read 500 pages with a font I don't like! Also, it creates the pdf with its own size choice so I pay extra money when I take the pdfs to print, because I get 500 pages while I could get just 300 with smaller fonts...
🙂
Hi, Linc. I am encountering this problem, too.
Do you know if there is a way to programmatically determine if the PDF format is not compatible? Is there some file attribute I could check? I'm wondering if I can write a script to convert the PDFs to a compatible format once they're downloaded.
Thanks.
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
printing pdf cuts off top of pages
