Expert: InDesign Pro - 9/6/2007

Question
Hi, I am trying to print something on the top-right edge and bottom of the paper but it leaves a gap between. It appears that many printers cannot print on the outside 1/4" inch of the paper. So does this mean that Indeisgn has "scaled" down the page content. In other words my fonts and image size will not be 100% exactly the size I set them out to be, right?

Any solutions?

Answer
Hi Willis,

InDesign CAN scale the document when printing, but the default is to print at 100%. And although InDesign is sending all the information to the printer, the printer needs a gripper and that's why it gets cut off. But it's probably not shrinking.

To check (or adjust) the scale of what you're printing, click on the Setup tab of the Print dialogue box and under the Options section you'll find a few ways to work with scaling of the document. You can manually choose the Width and Height percentages and either constrain the proportions or not, or you can choose Scale To Fit and let InDesign scale the document so that nothing is lost on the edges. But doing this will scale everything, included your fonts and images sizes.

Hope this helps, thanks for your submission.