Nightmare on PDF street

[BadBrad]

Whenever I make a document and export it (document size is 900px X 675 px) as a PDF it shows/prints out at approximately 2" X 1.5".
I save at "High Quality"



Bad Brad

SamBox.pdf

[gwpriester]

Try this.

Your page size was humongous and you have some kind of dark background shape.

I deleted all but your message and changed the page size to US letter.

[BadBrad]

The thing I don't understand is if I save it as a PNG it fits well within a 81/2" X 11" sheet of paper?.

Bad Brad

[gwpriester]

Your page size is 8.5" x 11" portrait. So far so good.

But you have some kind of opacity mask that is 37.8" X 32.7"

Your card is 9.38" x 7"

My screen capture was at 25% and the gray area is your opacity mask. The lighter colored rectangle in the upper left corner is your letter size page. My green rectangle around your card is how it should center on a letter size, landscape page.

Start over with a letter size page (or a European page size), create your card, and then export to PDF and your results will be what you expect them to be.

And don't feel bad. We have all done something like this. Or worse.

[BadBrad]

Is there anyway to delete the opacity mask to preserve the original template?

Bad Brad

[gwpriester]

I'm not sure what the original template is. But for something that is fairly simple like this, why not just cut the card objects and paste them into a new page?

[BadBrad]

Good idea. Thanks so much.

Bad Brad

[gwpriester]

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

[BadBrad]

Worked great