Margins and Borders When Combining Pages: Tips for Readability

Published: Oct 19, 2026 | Updated: Oct 19, 2026 | About (Japanese)

Key points

Margins and borders change readability a lot once pages are combined.

Margin

In Combine PDF Pages onto One Sheet, you can choose the outer margin from three levels.

Normal: unlikely to fall into the printer's unprintable area; a safe choice.
Small: pages are slightly larger. On some printers the edges may be cut off.
None: the largest pages, but the highest risk of edges being cut.

When unsure, choose Normal.

Draw: for slides or white-background documents, borders make the page edges clear.
None: photos or pages that already have a frame look fine without them.

A gap of about half the margin is placed between pages. With margin "None", the gap disappears and pages touch.

Across: left to right, then top to bottom, like normal reading.
Down: top to bottom, then left to right. Useful for vertically written material or reading by column.

Edges look different on screen and on paper. Print a single test page and check that nothing is cut off.

Compress PDF: Shrink a PDF to fit under a size you choose, for upload limits.
Rotate & Reorder PDF Pages: Fix sideways pages, change the page order, or remove pages.
Merge PDFs: Combine several PDF files into one, in the order you choose.

If this guide helped, a small tip would mean a lot.