Solution-If your export PDF page size is wrong or reduced

I had the comments hidden and still had problems at the printer with all my page content reduced in size and odd...until I found one image, in my multipage brochure, where it's invisible box had extended way beyond the page size in Pages. I opened Photoshop and trimmed my image down and all GREAT. Keep all invisible boxes for images inside your page borders.

I had the comments hidden and still had problems at the printer with all my page content reduced in size and odd...until I found one image, in my multipage brochure, where it's invisible box had extended way beyond the page size in Pages. I opened Photoshop and trimmed my image down and all GREAT. Keep all invisible boxes for images inside your page borders.

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