Printing problem Adobe Pro X from Excel 2003

I produce a number of reports each month using Excel 2003 and printing/converting them to PDF documents. All were nicely formatted and printed perfectly and reliably using Adobe 5.0 (ancient I know). I recently upgraded to Adobe Pro X. Now what once printed nicley only prints part of a page - about the right 1/3 is not showing. Even when selecting "fit to 1 page wide and 1 page tall" in excel page setup doesn't fix the problem. Changing the BINDING setting in Adobe doesn't fix the problem either. Previously I selected Adobe Writer from my printer listing which I understand has been discontinued. Now my only option is Adobe PDF. Any suggestions?

Interesting. My approach would
1. Try on a different system if available. If still bad...
2. Try to create a simple test application with CreateDC and StartDoc, and really nothing else not absolutely needed.
Test that. If it is good, look for other problems in your application (e.g. memory overwrite).
If your little example is still bad, post it here and other people can try and compare your results.

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Make sure you are current with 9.x patches, just on general principles.
The code seems fine – nothing jumping out at me.
You can also look at using the JSObject methods and trying this via the JavaScript stuff – that will give you more access to the Annotation information…
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Subject: Problem with controlling Annotations from Excel VBA
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