

Shrink One Page or Shrink to Fit was added to Word a long time ago, at least a decade. Making a document that’s using part of an extra page (an ‘orphan’), fit into a single page or one less page. I'll submit a bug on this to the Acrobat development group. The Shrink to Fit or Shrink One Page option hiding in Microsoft Word might solve a common problem. A somewhat sophisticated workaround, assuming that you are printing to a PostScript printer, is to edit the PPD file for the printer to change the imageable area to 0 for the 11x17 paper (either labelled as "ledger" or "tabloid"). False You can change the mode and remove unnecessary white space around buttons, and, thus, reduce the ribbon size. Microsoft Office help tells that you can hide or unhide your ribbon, but you cannot reduce the size of your ribbon, or size of the text or the icons. There is no easy workaround other than third party imposition plugins. After recent updates, the ribbon in Microsoft Word can take up to 1/3 of the available screen space. Apparently, though, the actual Acrobat implementation of "booklet printing" does the equivalent of "fit to printable area" accounting for the unprintable margins on your page. I assume that you might be printing 8.5"x11" pages to 11"x17" paper for your booklet in which case you would reasonably expect that the 8.5"x11" logical pages in your PDF file would be printed full size on the 11"x17" paper. Thanks for the information about doing "booklet printing." That changes the situation significantly. Is there any way I can upload an image here to illustrate the problem? I am doing the booklet printing, so the scale is not available.
