- #View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver install#
- #View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver drivers#
- #View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver windows 10#
I do not understand why Microsoft has not fixed this issue yet since so many of us have been asking for a solution. If this would be useful for you, please give it a go and let us know how it worked out for you in the comments! Perhaps they didn’t want to go through the extra testing for arbitrary page sizes, or maybe they did test it and saw problems with some specific page sizes, I don’t know. This seems to be producing correct output for me, so the puzzle is why Microsoft didn’t do this themselves. Now when you print something, select Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer, click Preferences, then Advanced and you should see your new page size in the pulldown menu. Now you can define a custom page size in the normal way: go to Devices and Printers in the control panel, select the printer Microsoft Print to PDF, click Print Server properties on the ribbon menu, tick Create a new form, give it a name and enter the dimensions you want, then click Save Form. Save the new file somewhere, then copy it over the top of the original file. The values for MaxSize are copied from the largest page size already defined (A3) and the values for MinSize are scaled down proportionately from that to represent A8 size. Then you need to edit the original file and add the following section, immediately after the line *DefaultOption: LETTER : Now, make a backup copy of the GPD file, so you can restore it if you fumble the editing. On my system it is \74e1846.gpd you will probably find you have the same file name but a different folder name. I was able to find the folder and file names by using regedit and looking in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\Print\Printers\ Microsoft Print to PDF\PrinterDriverData. Being an incurable tinkerer, I thought I’d try modifying it and see if it worked.įirst you need to find the GPD file for the driver, which is installed under C:\Windows\System32\spool\V4Dirs.
#View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver drivers#
It turns out that Windows printer drivers need to explicitly specify that they will support custom page sizes, and for some reason Microsoft Print to PDF doesn’t do that. However, one thing we currently use PDF for is preparing electronic payslips, for which we use a custom, small page size, and this wasn’t working with the Microsoft implementation.
#View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver install#
It would be good if I didn’t need to install Acrobat any more, as it’s expensive, uses a lot of disk space, and is one more thing you have to keep up to date with security patches. I use PDF a lot, for delivering clean versions of reports to clients and distributing presentation notes, so I was pleased to see Microsoft have built PDF creation in to Windows 10.
#View all page sizes for adobe pdf printer driver windows 10#
I’ve been setting up a new office PC with Windows 10 (while checking out the security and privacy settings, which have been well covered elsewhere). Briefly, the Windows 10 Print to PDF support doesn’t allow custom page sizes as it comes, but there is a simple way to enable it.
I don’t usually post Windows tips and tricks, but I thought this might be useful as I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else.
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