A tip for Adobe users...
Mar. 2nd, 2014 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAfter gaining hard-won knowledge on how Adobe products work from the Usual Sources (i.e., any place other than Adobe), make a record of the solution, because it is not beyond possibility that Adobe will reconfigure itself to behave in a manner other than what you prefer.
Case in point: A while ago, I puzzled over the fact that when Microsoft Word was instructed to print a document to PDF using the Letter paper format, the result shown in Acrobat was formatted for A4.
It turns out you have to go into Printers, select Adobe, open the Preferences, and specify Letter.
There didn't seem to be anything in particular one was supposed to do to keep it that way, but when I again, a few minutes ago, experienced the same unwelcome behavior (creation of an A4 format), it took me hardly any time at all to go and change the configuration again, because I had made a note of the problem (I have an entire section devoted to Adobe) and its solution.
Heck, I feel so good about this, it's almost as it it worked the way it should in the first place!
Case in point: A while ago, I puzzled over the fact that when Microsoft Word was instructed to print a document to PDF using the Letter paper format, the result shown in Acrobat was formatted for A4.
It turns out you have to go into Printers, select Adobe, open the Preferences, and specify Letter.
There didn't seem to be anything in particular one was supposed to do to keep it that way, but when I again, a few minutes ago, experienced the same unwelcome behavior (creation of an A4 format), it took me hardly any time at all to go and change the configuration again, because I had made a note of the problem (I have an entire section devoted to Adobe) and its solution.
Heck, I feel so good about this, it's almost as it it worked the way it should in the first place!
