Borderless PDF 4"x6" printing?

AFAIK borderless printing seems to be available only in iPhoto.
How can I print a PDF borderless -- on 4-inch by 6-inch photopaper -- presumably using Preview or Adobe Reader?
(I'd prefer not to reduce the PDF image quality by rendering it as a straight image file.)
The original PDF is larger scale than 4x6.

Not sure if this will be of any help but this is what I did to try and replicate your issue.
Within Preview I opened a pdf. I then opened Page Setup, selected my Canon iP5200R for Format for, and then selected 4 x 6 in (borderless).
Then opened the Print dialog (with the iP5200R as the default), enabled Scale to Fit, and then selected Advanced. Here I opened the Borderless Printing menu and set the Amoount of Extension to Maximum.
Printed the pdf on matt paper card stock and I got a full bleed print.
In testing some more I noticed that the ability to get a borderless print for all pdfs depended on the original pdf size and how well it scaled. In some cases, no matter how much extension was added, there was still some white areas on the paper. But if the x-y of the pdf was at the same ratio as the 4 x 6, then the scaling had minimal impact, which the extension could easily countermeasure.
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