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Old March 28th 18, 06:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
KenK
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DLed an Alcatel Pixie Unite cell user manual. It displays very nicely with
Foxit PDF viewer via Foxfore browser. Pages dispkay fully but they are
vertically cvompressed when printed so that they only fill half the printed
page. I've not had this happen before. Can't find any Foxit menu options to
fix this that I understand.

Anyone have any suggestions? This makes a difficult user guide even more
difficult to understand.

TIA

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Old March 28th 18, 07:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mike Easter
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KenK wrote:
DLed an Alcatel Pixie Unite cell user manual. It displays very nicely with
Foxit PDF viewer via Foxfore browser. Pages dispkay fully but they are
vertically cvompressed when printed so that they only fill half the printed
page. I've not had this happen before. Can't find any Foxit menu options to
fix this that I understand.

Anyone have any suggestions? This makes a difficult user guide even more
difficult to understand.


See how PDFXChange viewer handles the same. I like its features better
than foxit's.

I see the Tracker site says it has been dc/d in favor of Editor which
looks like it isn't free, but viewer is still available at the site
https://www.tracker-software.com/pro...xchange-viewer


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Old March 28th 18, 07:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Problem printing PDF

KenK wrote:
DLed an Alcatel Pixie Unite cell user manual. It displays very nicely with
Foxit PDF viewer via Foxfore browser. Pages dispkay fully but they are
vertically cvompressed when printed so that they only fill half the printed
page. I've not had this happen before. Can't find any Foxit menu options to
fix this that I understand.

Anyone have any suggestions? This makes a difficult user guide even more
difficult to understand.

TIA


I have a PDF sample from them here, where the document
page size is 3.03" by 4.61". It needs to be
"Fit to paper" when printed to letter paper.

https://s17.postimg.org/7zqgk4cfz/print.gif

Documents like this, the scale showing is for the original
printed manual they were planning on making, with microscopic
pages so the manual easily fits in the box.

Paul
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Old March 28th 18, 07:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Problem printing PDF

KenK wrote:

DLed an Alcatel Pixie Unite cell user manual.


And that would be from WHERE? Give a URL to the download; else, we have
no idea what .pdf file you got.

I found one at:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/tpassets.de...M_EN_Final.pdf

It displays very nicely with Foxit PDF viewer via Foxfore browser.
Pages dispkay fully but they are vertically cvompressed when printed
so that they only fill half the printed page. I've not had this
happen before. Can't find any Foxit menu options to fix this that I
understand.


In the .pdf that I found (might not be the one you found), the pages are
already small so they'll print that way, too. That was the choice of
whomever wrote the PDF as to the sizing of the pages. This how the PDF
looked in both the PDF viewer embedded in Google Chrome and in
PDFXchange Editor. Same for the author's choice of small fonts.

You never mentioned which printer (brand and model) you have. Could be
the software for that printer lets you expand a page to the margins of
the paper, like "Fit to page margins", or gives you a zoom function to
enlarge the "page" that will fit larger onto the paper. Because the
manual is oriented sideways (it is wider than it is long), you may have
to elect a rotation feature in your printer's software to print in
landscape mode (rather than portrait mode); else, zooming could result
in either still some wasted whitespace at the bottom of the paper or
losing content that goes outside the paper margins.

You'll have to play with the configuration of whatever printer you have
to see what options it provides for fitting, zooming, and reorientation.
 




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