How to print a PDF document correctly to fit the paper?

Question

I am trying to print a PDF document which is an image. I would like to make the image stretch so the border of it is exactly on the border of the actual letter-size paper that I'm using. I tried the option "page scaling: fit to printable area" but the image is smaller than it should be, because of the margin I think? I don't know how to get rid of the margin. Please help?

Answer 1

you can't...it's doing exactly what it should (and can) do; it's fitting it to the "printable area".  No regular printer can print all the way to the very edge of a piece of paper.  Most printers can get as close as 1/2" from the edge but that's as close as they can get.  That's the maximum "printable area".

Answer 2

There are a couple of work arounds for this if you wish to use them.

1) You can use the snapshot tool (the camera with the dotted line around it on the toolbar), and simply take a snapshot of the image and paste into word (and stretch from there).  However, the quality may be not so good.

2) You can do some nifty tricks with the professional version of Acrobat Reader, including removing the white space around the image or saving as a jpeg.  If you remove the whitespace around the image you will be able to print to the maximum extent of the printer margins.  However, of course you will need the professional version or equivalent.

3) But yeah should you wish to print right to the edge of the paper you will need a printer capable of this.