Why paper sizes limited?

I am viewing www.lynda.com online training for Pages.
About 1/3 of the way into the tutorial on document setup, he shows the options available under Page Setup in paper sizes. The sizes that he shows available are much broader (his Pages app. shows about 17 options) than what I see available in my own Pages application (mine only shows 9 options). I would like to use some of the options I see in his app. picture...
Why are my options for page size so limited?
Thanks,
Meg

It depends on your printer. Normally you'll only see the paper sizes that are supported by your printer (or more properly, the printer driver software).
I looked at the tutorial you mentioned, and it shows an HP Color LaserJet 2600n as the printer. It lists 16 pre-defined sizes, plus one custom.
If you pick Format for: Any Printer, then you may see a wider selection of paper sizes. Note that some choices may not work with your printer. How many of us have printers that can print Tabloid (11 x 17")?
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May be the error is in the way I type the paramters in the page size boxes : I type, e.g., "12,5 cm" which is transformed into "13 cm" when I hit another control ?
I tried other formats whithout success :
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"12.5 cm" -> error message
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"12,5" -> "13 cm"
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All,
Here is an update on my situation/problem.
1. I've been talkig with Adobe tech support. They say there is a size limit in Standard that is less than that in Professional. They weren't specific about the nature of this limit.
2. I've upgraded to Adobe Acrobat XI Standard from X. The problem hasn't changed.
3. I've upgraded to Adobe Acrobat XI Professional. The problem hasne't changed.
4. I created a very large spreadsheet and tried to print it as PDF to 40" wide by 70" high paper (just under that 3000 square inch limit). It took 43 pages, but it worked.
5. I tried to print the same spreadsheet as PDF to 40" wide by 80" high paper (The same amount over the 3000 sq. in. limit, but well under the old 200" X 200" limit.). I got an out of memory error message. I've got 4 GB of memory and Excel was the only application running. This doesn't make much sense to me. The successful PDF from step 4 was about 1.3 Meg in size.
I would very much appreciate it if someone would confrim my steps 4 & 5. Create a large spreadsheet and try to print to Adobe PDF using a very large custom paper size. I'd like to know if the problem is general or just on my PC.
I just received the following from another source:
Here is an interesting article about Windows 7 RTM having issues with large documents.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-RTM-Can-t-Print-Large-Page-Documents-130269.shtml
“The problem will occur if "(Paper Width in inches * dpi) * (Paper Length in inches * dpi)" results in a number larger than 4GB (0xFFFFFFFF),” the company noted.
The deal breaking combination is a mixture of high resolution content and large paper size, Microsoft said.
So maybe if you reduce your dpi resolution you might get it to print. Just an off-the-wall thought. Of course, maybe this was only an issue with RTM.
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“You are unable to print a document on a large paper size at a high resolution from a Windows 7 client. For example, printing at 600x600 dpi one page which printable area is 40" x 300" will fail. The same page will be printed fine when printed at 300x300 dpi,” the software giant revealed.
There is a solution already available for end users to deal with this issue. However, Microsoft is not offering an update or a hotfix, or any sort of automatic resolve for that matter. Still, the fix is simple enough that it can be easily implemented manually, and in fact this is what the Redmond company is advising customers to do.
“Add the following registry DWORD and set the value to 1 (if the printer driver is using EMF data type) or 2 (if the printer driver uses RAW data type): [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows] "UMPDSecurityLevel" - DWORD - "0x1" or "0x2",” Microsoft noted.
Does anyone know if this applies to Adober Acrobat PDF? Which data type does Adobe use?
TIA.
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I have a printer with four different paper trays, and each one is loaded with different size of paper: A3, A4, Legal, envelopes. When I use IE 11, I can easy go to print preview, click on page setup (little gear icon), select paper size , margins, etc.. there, and when i hit OK, the page is adjusted to the settings I selected and its ready to print, and printer selects the proper size of the paper automatically
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Problem is that you can't '''"preview"''' what is going to be printed when you change paper size. If you go back to Print Preview without printing from the "native print dialog" the change for Paper Size isn't saved for viewing in Print Preview!
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Standard paper size in this country is A4, not Letter. The desktop printer was created manually on a Windows XP system following the instructions in document cpsid_86984. MS Word was then used to print a Word document to the virtual printer. Paper Size in Word's Page Setup was correctly set to A4. However the resultant PDF file was Letter size, causing the top of each page to be truncated.
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Thank you, Rebecca.
The plot thickens a little, given that it was the same unaltered Word document that first created a letter-size PDF, but correctly created an A4-size PDF after the driver was changed from the HP Color Laser PS to a Xerox Phaser. I thought that the answer may lie in your comment that "it'll get complicated if there is a particular driver selected in the process of manually installing the PDF desktop printer". But that HP driver was not (consciously) selected - it became part of the printer definition when the manual install instructions were followed.
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