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Printing the guides at the right size: 100%, Letter or A4

Two settings decide whether a guide comes out the way it was drawn. Which file to print, and which scale to choose.

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Two settings decide whether a guide comes out the way it was drawn: which file you print, and the scale you print it at. Get both right and the page fits the paper, with its margins where they were meant to be.

Pick the file that matches your paper

Each guide comes as two PDFs:

  • US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches (216 × 279 mm), the standard sheet in the United States and Canada.
  • A4, 210 × 297 mm, the standard in most other countries.

Each is drawn at its own real size. Neither is the other scaled up or down, so print the one that matches the paper in your printer. If you are not sure which you have, the size is printed on the paper's packaging.

In the print dialog, set the scale to 100% or Actual size. Do not use Fit to page or Shrink oversized pages. Those options resize the page on its way to the printer, and that is what moves content into the edge the printer cannot reach. The setting usually sits under a heading such as Scale, Page Sizing or Size options.

Print one page first

Print a single page and look at it before printing the rest. Check that nothing at the edges is cut off and that the lines sit where you expect. It costs one sheet.

Paper, and printing on both sides

Plain paper is fine. For double-sided printing, choose flip on long edge, so the back of each page reads the same way up as the front.

On a tablet

The guides read fine in any PDF app on a tablet.

Spreadsheets and their guides

A spreadsheet product comes with a PDF guide in both paper sizes; print the guide the same way. The spreadsheet itself does not need printing to be used.

The Offer Math and Unit Cost Sheet guides carry these print settings on the page after the cover; the Lunith Commerce OS guide needs no printing.

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Sources

Checked: read at the source, on the date given. Not re-checked: from research we have not checked again ourselves. Not known: a question the research could not answer.

  • CheckedThe print settings page in the Offer Math and Unit Cost Sheet guides, and the printing note in each README
  • CheckedPage sizes: US Letter 612 × 792 pt and A4 595.28 × 841.89 pt, each drawn at its own size
  • CheckedNo form fields: the PDFs are drawn pages, with none in them
  • Not re-checkedScaling as the cause of clipped edges: third-party research on print complaints, not re-checked

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