Preserving the dimensions in PDF

I am having trouble with printing to PDF.   I have a legal-sized document in Graphic Convertor.  I want to print it to PDF.  When I do so, the image comes out letter-sized and cropped on the top, left, and bottom.  I cannot find any controls in the Apple printer window to use in setting the size of the PDF image.   What am I doing wrong?  TIA

I just ran a test. I opened an image in GraphicConverter, one which I knew to be sized and preset as Letter size.
I opened Page Setup and changed the Paper size to US Legal (the regular one, not the small one in the submenu). OK'd that screen.
Then I opened the Print dialog, clicked the PDF button in the lower left, chose Save as PDF and waited.
In a bit a new file appeared on the desktop.
Double-clicking that new file opened it in Preview, as it should since it was now a PDF doc.
It was a bit hard to tell if the image/doc was in US Legal size, since the Print dialog showed US Letter - which it would, since the Print settings have to do with processing the doc for the printer, and are not those of the doc itself.
So, to verify the nature of the PDF I went to the Tools menu and selected Show Inspector. In the new window that opened I set it to the General tab/button, and the info presented was this -
As I've annotated, the file itself is indeed set to US Legal, 8.5 x 14 inches.
I fiddled a bit with the PDF in Preview. I found that if I chose "Actual Size" in the View menu, then reduced the size of the window (dragging by the lower right corner), the size of the displayed image did extend past the edges of the window. This gave the appearance of the image having been cropped on two or three edges. Scrolling revealed this to be an illusion - the entire image was available, just too big for the size of the window.

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