scale of .PDFs

still somewhat unfamiliar with the whole .pdf process - I created a .pdf with Acrobat Distiller + then printed the .pdf off of our printer (just an 8.5x11) - the scale was wrong - why? - thought that .pdfs were an exact repro. of the drawing the way printing was - have been told that that is now the standard way of sending drawings to be printed at a print shop because then you don't have to worry about .ctbs, fonts, lineweights, etc. but this has me worried - thanks for any help . . .

 

Make sure you don't have the fit to paper box checked when printing.

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Tripp Corbin, GISP, MCP
Associate Vice President, GIS/Mapping
ESRI Authorized Instructor
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I think your question has been answered so as an aside I would like to ask
why are you using distiller? Have you loaded the Acrobat PDFWriter and tried
it? It doesn't install from the Acrobat CD on a standard install. You have
to specifically choose to load it.

with Acrobat Distiller + then printed the .pdf off of our printer (just an
8.5x11) - the scale was wrong - why? - thought that .pdfs were an exact
repro. of the drawing the way printing was - have been told that that is now
the standard way of sending drawings to be printed at a print shop because
then you don't have to worry about .ctbs, fonts, lineweights, etc. but this
has me worried - thanks for any help . . .