#ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.1 EDITABLE PDF WITHOUT ACROBAT PRO PDF#
The problem is, when you change them from pdf to word, the result is often somewhat different in places and in what you have as a word document, some of the ridgid formatting carries over from the pdf to the new word doc and when you try to fix the text, some of it won't move where it's supposed to, and it's difficult (onery really) to edit. The way Adobe recommends is to export to word, make your formatting changes then convert it back to pdf if you wish. Then you save it with Paint.NET, and then convert the png back to a pdf and combine the pages. The file turns up in the upper left hand corner, quite small, and you drag the dots to enlarge/shrink the page, and change it so that the text column is shorter than before and wider-you can crop and resize the page until it's an 8.5" X11" page that has perfect margins all around. The files are the pages that are now png photos. Then using Paint.NET, you load your 8.5" X 11" white rectangle png into Paint.NET, under Layers, select import layer from file. Another way is to convert your pdf to a png or jpg. You can get more cropable space if you Select All and change to a smaller or more narrow font that will shrink your text boxes. You can go through the document in EDIT mode and adjust all the text boxes to the proper margins. You can do better if you're able to move text in tighter formation towards the middle of the page to get more cropping off the top and bottom. It's a partial but not entirely satisfactory fix. So if you crop the left and right sides you'll end up with a long, narrow page which Acrobat redoes, putting back wide margins on the sides so everything fits on the 8.5" X 11" letter-size paper. The text is usually closely fitting the top and bottom of the page.
Wide margins on either side and a column down the middle of text. Unfortunately you can not put in negative cropping (at least in AA5 - did not try it on AA7, 8, or 9 on my other machines), or the process would have just gotten easier. I figured I would go through the process since folks ask about margins periodically.
You may lose some resolution and such, but at least you have your print margins.
I would test on a short document, but you should be able to do it on a large document after you set the process. I think that once you have gone through the process and figured out the steps and proper scalings and croppings, then it should be rather easy to do. If you want alternating print margins, you would need to crop the even and odd pages separately. A better test would have been to have created a box for the margins initially and played with the scaling to get there. I printed to a new page with expand to fit. After 75% print and a crop of TBRL of 1.5,1.4.36.128 in I had about TBRL of. At least this is an alternative to try to get what you want. If you spend a little time with measurements and such, you might find good %s to use for the print and the cropping. These checks might include the expand to fit option and such. It may be that you can try printing to another PDF and seeing how the results go (I did this with the expand to fit and got a page with a large left margin and narrow top, bottom, and right margins. In the new one, use the crop to get the top, right, and bottom margins back to where you want them. You might also select a custom page size that when scaled and cropped, would include within it the letter or A4 size that you might want for the final. You can play around with calculations to what might be a good percent for the end result - I randomly selected 75% and turned off shrink and expand to fit page.
Print your PDF to the Adobe PDF printer AFTER setting the printer properties>General>Advanced>scaling to maybe 80% or so. This may not be optimal, but may meet your needs.