How to create a PDF that prints at actual size for all printers

I create printable educational products for teachers and homeschoolers. I need to be able to make some printable PDFs that have cards set to a specific dimension, say 3" x 3". When I create PDFs in InDesign and print them, the printer tends to shrink the PDF down. This happens even when I set the Page Scaling to None. But regardless of what my printer does, I would like to be able to create PDFs that print at actual size for anyone who purchases my products. How can this be done? Can I change the settings when I create the PDF? Do I need to includes special instructions with my products? Thanks so much for your help.

You can specify the printing process in the PDF for Acrobat and Reader, open the PDF in Acrobat > file properties (right mouse click on the page) and in the extended tab (the most right tab) you can set printing not to scale for that PDF as default setting.

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I'm having an issues when others go to print out a document and don't make sure the document is set to print in actual size and we lose the scaling on the document. Is there a way to lock the print settings on a pdf so they are always correct?

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If the list of people who and only who you want to be able to open this PDF is predefined, then you can use Certificate Encryption in Acrobat. For this method to work each of possible recipients of the encrypted PDF needs to procure a digital certificate with a private key enabled for encryption and send you the public key version of this certificate. Then you encrypt this PDF with public key certificates (there may be many of them) of all recipients you want to be able to open this PDF. Then you distribute this PDF to all recipients and each of them can then open this PDF with their private key certificates.
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How can I make Preview open to actual size for all images?

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Open a PDF in Preview. Now, right-click on the toolbar and select Customize Toolbar ...
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Click the middle button in the Zoom panel. The Scale will report 100%.
Your future Preview documents will open at 100% now.

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Chrome has its own PDF viewer plugin that is quite buggy when it comes to PDF forms (as do Firefox and Safari, by the way).
So yes, the best solution is to download the file and then open it locally using Adobe Reader. However, you can't enforce that. It's up to the user and their browser settings. You can only recommend it to them.

How to create universe so that it can be opened for two diff CMS in designer

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CA Forum: Administration
Hi,
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I have a website mockup design (72dpi) created in Fireworks. I often provid these for client review as PDFs. However, recently, the PDFs are not displaying properly.
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squidz wrote:
Interesting...I don't recall seeing that pref in the past. I'm using v8.1.6 and it is there. "System setting" is 99 px/inch. And here all these years I thought my Macs were 72 px/inch but Acrobat believes it to be 99. Which also explains why at 75% they looked closer to actual size.
I changed that setting to 72 and it display perfectly. But, as you said, that setting on someone else's system is beyond my control.
Seems pretty screwy that Acrobat itself drives how a user sees a document rather then the document delivering it's actual dims/resolution. I'm simply surprised that I've not known this all this time.
It depends upon the resolution of the monitor used and the Graphics Card used in your system.
Usually it would be 72. but for example above in the Screen shot I showed my PowerBook 17" does infact use 98DPI.
I don't know whether you noticed the drop down box for Zoom level All I have shown is fit to Page but there is also fit to width along with percentages going all the way up to 200%.
If you want you can set back to 99 and change the zoom level you normally see when openning a file.

How to create a pdf for print in print order ie p1&20, 2&19 etc

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This forum is amazing!
This may be a super obvious question but I can't work it out.
Is there a way to create a pdf that organizes the pages in the correct order for printing?
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Everything that Peter has said
If you supply a file that is done like
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I am with Peter. I would not trust a printers who requested work sent like I have illustrated. I would run as far away as possible from a company that requested this. A printing company that can't impose a 20 page document is crazy, shouldn't happen.
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But you can do it by setting a new document up. Then use File>Place to place page 20,1, 2,19 etc.
Use the Pages Panel and toggle the allow document and pages to shuffle (two items) to move pages to facing spreads.
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Which Adobe product can create a PDF that cannot be altered or printed by the recipient?

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How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?

Dear All,
I want to create a SINGLE page pdf file from two or more page size images that are combined to make a single page pdf. Again, this question is on pdfs that are made out of several, atleast two color images and a black-and-white mask for one of them.
I have such pdf files from an unknown source (the producer is edited out) whereby there are three tiff images, obtained using the well known pdfimages extractor.
When I want to make a pdf out of tiff or png or other image formats, I right click and tell Adobe Acrobat to make a pdf.
However, I dont know how I can give a command to select say, three tif images and specify which is the mask for which and then join them in a way that I get the pdf from the composite of the two color images and a mask for one of them.
Please help me out.
I am a little familiar with the pdf structure skeleton and when necessary, fixed xref tables in one of my favorite editors. A few years ago, I also wrote a bunch of javascripts to make some annotations and needed some automation and used some itext type libraries. However, I need your help in this problem as I am now rusty and forgot some of what I studied to solve my earlier problems. This is a new problem for me. Gentle hints from you would be very nice to help me in this problem. Please specify if necessary what manual and pages to read. in the pdfspec.
Best Regards
Disabled Veteran [physically handicapped]

Hello Again.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM, lrosenth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Re: How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?
>
> created by lrosenth in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full
> discussion
> ________________________________
>
> No clue who Irving is…
>
I was hoping to have your first name so its easy for me to address you.
> I have no clue what OS platform, programming language, etc. you use so
> can’t really narrow things down.
I would gladly mention that I am working on windows platform, preferably XP.
I can also work on linux for free products that come with it.
> Also, as this is an Adobe forum, we only
> recommend Adobe products – so there may be other options that even my list
> wouldn’t include.
But adding other products, for the help of an adobe products user,
even if it outside adobe, shall add greater prestige to your company
and give impression of user-centeredness.
> If you read ISO 32000-1:2008 (aka the PDF standard), you will find the
> information about Images and Image Masks well described. I didn’t think I
> needed to repeat any of that information.
Well, just add the few pdf stanzas since you are proficient on it and
I am presently a little rusty as I mentioned. Just asking a little
extra yard, not even to go an extra mile.
> And, if you read that same document, you will see that there is NO SUCH
> THING as a “text only PDF”. All PDF documents are structured binary files.
Well, ascii format or uncompressed format that is human readable. I
know its a binary file, but human readable ascii version of it.
I hope you can give me some stanza and various other approaches
possible so I can select or combine things for myself. I see only a
miniscule number of posts claiming to have written masks in this forum
and then with no details.
Regards
Roger
Message was edited by: dying veteran
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