: How do I automatically add a margin to every even page? I'm hoping this is the best community for this - Whilst not directly graphical, I'm thinking it is related to a print option in Adobe

@Kimberly620

You can do this with GhostScript from a commandline/batchfile like this:

gswin64c -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH ^
-dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=out.pdf ^
-c "<< /BeginPage { 2 mod 1 eq {-50 0 translate} {} ifelse } bind >> setpagedevice"^
-f in2.pdf


Adjust the -50 to be as many points (1 ps point is 72th part of an inch) you want to shift the graphics on the page. The example is assuming windows if not change gswin64c to gs and ^ to . Beware do not put spaces after ^ on windows.

You could also do a lot of other things with ghostscript such as add headers, footers, stamps etc.

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@Fox8063795

There are a few places to look at. You might look at the print dialog provided by the printer driver (just ignore the message from Acrobat/Reader that you are leaving the print dialog), and see what options you have.

If that does not lead to the desired results, you could crop the pages (requiring Acrobat); you can crop even and odd pages. With the pages properly cropped, you can try to print again on you double sided printer (which should have the possibility to place the page accordingly.

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