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<p>Hello Thomas,</p>
<p>most of our PDF files are produced with visible printer marks (FrameMaker 8, Acrobat 9 Pro, Win XP).</p>
<p>In some cases, pages will be trimmed irregularly like you mention it.<br />So when checking the PDF file I always set this back to zero for all pages just to be sure.</p>
<p>I have no idea at the moment why this happens, but until now I could still handle it. <br />Of course it would be embarassing if hundreds of files were affected or if the output was produced without any possibility for manual correction.</p>
<p>It would be great to find out more about this ...</p>
<p>Best regards -</p>
<p>Tino H. Haida</p>
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<p>Thomas Scalise:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">When I make a PDF ( using Save as PDF), the Title page, the TOC, and Chapters 1, 9 10, and 11 all format correctly. Chapters 2-8, however, format with the top of the page trimmed off (the page size reverts to 8.5 X 11). The same thing happens if I Print the manual to a postscript file and run the Distiller against that file.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">I should say that using the same Distiller settings against another A4 manual, the results are completely correct. No shorter pages in the PDF.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">Has anyone faced this problem? I have not seen it before, and I have made PDFs from many A4 size manuals. It looks as though starting with Chapter 2 the page size is changed in the Distiller to 8.5 X 11 and then changed back to A4 starting with Chapter 9. Is there something that I have inadvertently done in those chapters that is causing this Distiller behavior? To my knowledge I have done nothing different in FrameMaker than I have done before in creating a manual (nothing I am aware of, at any rate).<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #0d0d0d;">I came here rather than going to the Adobe forums, which are byzantine in access and glacial in pace. Thanks is advance for any help you can give.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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