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I'd like to print a PDF with custom page margin settings.

So I opened the PDF with Evince (standard document viewer) and added a new page size in the print dialog:

It has a bigger margin on the right side in this case.

But on the printed paper or in the print preview the margins are ignored no matter what the exact settings are. When I do the same procedure in GIMP in the print dialog it works perfectly as expected but Evince just seems to ignore the margin settings. Unfortunately in GIMP I can't print all pages in a PDF at once so I'm looking for a solution with Evince or a better PDF viewer if there is one.

Zanna
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P_M
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    What is set on the Page Handling tab in Page Scaling? It should be set to Shrink or Fit to Printable Area, especially if the source document has different page size than the format used in your printer. – jnv May 12 '12 at 17:16
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    Yes, I tried with both. Still margins are ignored. – P_M May 12 '12 at 17:37
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    3 years later, still the same problem. Isn't this worthy a bug-report? – tlwhitec Oct 15 '15 at 16:22
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    Is there still no solution to this? – Māris Ozols Jan 07 '17 at 00:20
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    only today I have seen this annoying issue, so I have opened a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780802 – mattia.b89 Apr 01 '17 at 10:05
  • why can't linux print decently?!?! Any windows computer will auto shrink the page to the correct margins. Why can't linux do this? Everyone knows that we print using PDF files as a standard. This should be the first priority for any pdf reader. We don't need to read PDF files! We need to print them. – Joshua Robison Apr 13 '19 at 02:51
  • Crazy. This Bug is still open! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/issues/411 – Freude Apr 30 '22 at 11:12

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You can try Okular that can print all pages in a PDF like Evince.

desgua
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    Well, the same happend with Okular. I set a big border margin on one side and printed to a PDF and it ignores it too. – P_M May 12 '12 at 17:50
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Bumped into the same problem. I was trying to print a cropped pdf as two pages on one slide. I'm glad I found this post because I thought I was doing something wrong.

My work-around: use the pdf viewer in Firefox. Most Ubuntu users have this web browser, so this is perhaps the easiest work-around.

Still, it's an Evince nuisance, hence +1 for mattia.b89

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I have an idea for a workaround:

Open a PDF with the Firefox browser -> Click on the small printer symbol in the top right -> Click "More Settings" -> If I set Scale to 50 the PDF can be printed with a white border.

Maybe somebody else knows how to define a paper format for the Firefox PDF printing function to customize the borders/margins. enter image description here

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I also faced the problem with the ignoring of larger borders, which I set, when printing a PDF document via evince. I was successful to solve the problem by using the ghostview and printer installed directly to my PC. (Unfortunately, the ghostview was not working properly when I tried a printing on a remote printer connected with the PC via web.)

L.N.
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