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How do I lock printer paper size in Word docs saved to PDF?
I have created an A5-sized information sheet using Word 2016 which I save as a PDF (using File > Save As then selecting PDF file type).
That gets me a PDF which opens OK in Adobe Reader and seems to display as an A5 document (148 x 210 mm). However when end users print the PDF it comes out on A4 paper. How do I use Word 2016 to generate a PDF that the end user cannot print on any size of paper except A5? How do I make it so that printers and printer drivers cannot over-ride the paper size that I, as the author, have chosen? Simply telling people to print it on A5 paper isn't working as they just hit print without checking what paper size appears in the print dialog box. |
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You can't.
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Cross-posted at: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-a5caf00b9889
For cross-posting etiquette, please read: http://www.excelguru.ca/content.php?184
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I find that hard to credit. It seems such a basic requirement that someone, somewhere will have sussed it out.
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Word has no control over how a PDF gets re-scaled (or not) by any PDF reader. That functionality, if it existed, would be at the discretion of the reader software and would require PDFs to provide for the inclusion of metadata that could be used to that end. I know of no such capability in PDFs - and there's no evidence of such a security setting in Adobe Acrobat (open any PDF and check the Security options via File>Properties>Security for yourself). You can't even prevent a Word document from being re-scaled for printing...
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OK. Thanks. So if I understand you correctly it's not currently possible because neither Word nor PDF have a never-print-in-any-way-except... parameter and they'd both need to have it before the chain of Word -> PDF -> hardcopy was secure against unofficial page size changes.
Sounds like the place to start would be getting PDFs to support it, so the best place to begin would be by writing to Adobe. |
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