Why does the paper size and margins look different in write mode than in print mode?

[Lillie_Harris]

The print preview in Print mode uses the selected paper size/dimensions in the Print Options panel (on the right), but if you’re exporting graphics (e.g. a PDF), the settings for the page size, orientation etc set in Layout Options are used for the resulting exported file.

Can't change A4 print page size

Welcome to the forum, Dan (if I may be so bold as to presume!). It’s not a bug that the print preview doesn’t show the exact PDF dimensions when exporting graphics but rather a limitation of the fact that it’s a print preview, i.e. it really is bound to the paper size chosen for the printer. When you export graphics, you’re not using a printer at all, and we’d have to cook up a fictional printer with an appropriate paper size in order to update the print preview, which is easier said than done. …