i opened a file attachment and am trying to print from an apple computer. it's in pdf preview. it's looks huge on the screen but tabs and all are inline. but when i click print and it shows a preview of what is about to be printed, it's completely skewed to the right and extremely large. And this is exactly what prints out. help??? how can i make this attachment print correctly.
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In Preview.app there isn't an option, although there is a way:
- Open your .pdf document
- Select All (Command A)
- Everything should be highlighted
- Control mouse click on any page
- From the popup menu > select the circle with a slash through it
- Print your document
- Press Command Z to undo (re-enable highlights)
My guess is there's an issue with the character encoding in the document. Unless you're up to playing with OCR (optical character recognition), try the following:
- Open the document in Preview.
- "Export" the PDF as a PDF from Preview (crazy, I know). Do this from the Preview menu instead the print dialog.
- Print the exported PDF.
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Best Answer
In the preview there is a button called Actual size.
That will show you the actual size, and it might be very large pending the file.
In the Preview print menu, you can check the Scale to Fit, and it will fit to your paper size section above.