Save as PDF Page Formatting

Hi All,
I built a tool in Excel 2007 which allows the user to publish a formatted output to PDF. To get around the fact that the excel pulls the printer metrics from the active printer, I had the tool load up the MODI printer and use its metrics so I always
had a consistent borderless printer driver source across all users and all was well.
I have a problem on the horizon though, my work is moving their OS across to 64bit Windows 7 and the MODI does not run on 64bit.
Is there a way to manually define the printer metrics and force excel 2007 to use those as a pass through when creating a PDF, alternatively can I just tell it to ignore the active printer like you can in word?
Failing that Is there a better fixed page formatting method in either Excel 2010 or 2013?

Hi,
Do you mean that you built a tool to load up the MODI printer and use its metrics, but the the MODI does not run on 64bit, so you want to manually define the printer metrics?
Since You said you want to manually define the printer metrics and I think the issue is more related to the feature of Excel, I'd like to move it to Excel IT pro forum.
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