How to Disable Scaling when Printing

[qantumentangled]

I print checks every day, and I noticed that the PDF24 Printer is scaling my pages down to fit inside the margins. That's a neat feature and it makes sense to have it enabled by default. But I really need that scaling to NOT happen.

 

When I print directly to my printer everything prints perfectly and to scale.

But when I print to PDF24 (which opens it in PDF24 Assistant) then print it from there to my printer (same settings/profile/etc.)  it's scaled down to fit in the margins.

 

PDF24 is one of the best tools I've added to my workflow this year and I'd really like to keep using it. So is there any way to disable the scale-to-fit feature when using the PDF24 Printer?

[Stefan Ziegler]

Can you send me some screenshots to forum@pdf24.org so that I can see the problem?

[qantumentangled]

Here are screenshots of the scaling problem I'm having. When printing to the PDF24 printer, every page is scaled down a little bit, which causes checks to print incorrectly. Printing directly to the printer (not through PDF24 does not result in any scaling.

I also tried the "use system dialog" option. No change.
I also tried adjusting the "Scale" setting to "default", "fit to paper", and  "custom: 100". No change.

I have been unsuccessful finding any settings or options in PDF24 to change or adjust scaling.

See Files on Google Drive

[sbrient]

I'm having the same problem with PDF24 Reader scaling down pages when I print. I created a CAD drawing as a PDF with PDF24. When I print it, it needs to be the sheet on the page needs to be the same size as the PDF so that I can measure parts of the drawing from the printed page but when I print from PDF24 Reader it scales down the drawing so it's not to scale anymore. When I print from Adobe Acrobat at "actual size," it prints to scale so I know the PDF was created correctly. I never saw a resolution to this issue. Has anyone found a solution other than printing from Acrobat?

[piet1979]

I have the same issue. When I print the same document on A4 or A3 printers, it scales the document up or down to fit the page. The issue is that when I print an A3 drawing on A3 page, when I physically measure the dimensions with a ruler, the scale is slightly off.

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