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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / July 2005Saving slides to pdf
I'm running PowerPoint version X and need to save a few PP presentations to pdf. When I create the pdfs, the slides have a white frame around them. The original slides in PP do not. How do I create a pdf file with slides that are not "framed". Thanks Hi, The ability to save as PDF is a result of the printer driver. Can your printer do "full bleed" printing (edge-to-edge of the paper)? If so, then set your printer to use full bleed before making the PDF. -Jim  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > I'm running PowerPoint version X and need to save a few PP > presentations to pdf. When I create the pdfs, the slides have a white > frame around them. The original slides in PP do not. How do I create a > pdf file with slides that are not "framed". > > Thanks Hi Jim, Thanks for that. I've got 2 Brother HL-1470N lasers, a Lexmark Z65n ink jet, and a Brother MFC-6800 ( oh yeah, and a Epson C84 in a box somewhere). Surely one of these does full bleed. Where do I find the setting? I don't see it in the list of print options. Thanks, Peter Does anyone else have an idea about how to make this work? I've looked everywhere I can think of in my printer settings and even did a Google search on the topic, but no luck. I can't be the only one with this issue, am I? Maybe there is a way to load a driver for a printer I don't have, but supports full bleeds? Any ideas there. Help, I need to get this project done. Thanks Peter Most printers have what is called a "printable area" based on the design of the printer. This controls how close to the edge you can print. The printer cannot lay ink down where the device that rolls the paper through the printer needs to grip the paper. This is why the widest you can print on an inkjet printer is in the range of .7 inches top, bottom left or right. Some are more and some are less. Laser printers usually have a .5" or smaller area considered as unprintable. The driver is sensitive to this and will either truncated the image to fit, or scale it to fit in the allowable image area. You need to look for a printer or a driver at least, that can be set to borderless printing. Some of the more expensive photo quality printers may have this. Even so, you may only get true borderless printing on three sides. You can query the internet for printers that support this option, such as http://www.hp.com/united-states/ize/steps_borderless_printing.html Good luck, Bob On 7/8/05 5:37 PM, in article 1120869426.804604.287650@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, > Does anyone else have an idea about how to make this work? I've looked > everywhere I can think of in my printer settings and even did a Google [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thanks I think that this "problem" is easier fixed on the pdf itself. The current versions of both Acrobat Pro and Preview allow one to crop all the pages of a file at once. So I think you can fix the problem this way rather than trying to find a "marginless" printer driver. For example, if you open the pdf in Preview and draw a selection rectangle that exactly matches the content of each page, you can then execute the Crop command and it will ask you if you want to crop all the pages. Brian On 7/8/05 6:37 PM, in article 1120869426.804604.287650@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, > Does anyone else have an idea about how to make this work? I've looked > everywhere I can think of in my printer settings and even did a Google [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thanks |
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