PDF Margin Workaround

I suspect this will be needed by very few, but I didn’t see it elsewhere, so I thought I’d post just in case!

I had a report that printed with a very narrow margin, such that my printer cut off parts of the text. I started to do a workaround by printing first to PDF, but the PDF had very narrow margins and the same problem. The text was small enough that I didn’t want to shrink it.

The solution was simply to print to PDF, but set the page size smaller, in this case 7.5″ x 10″. I then used the crop box settings to expand the page to 8.5″ x 11″ and all was well. I’m using Acrobat Pro.