Mathematica document not retaining margins from stylesheet when printing?

Question

In the process of creating my resume in Mathematica, I needed to adjust the margins of the default stylesheet so that section headers would take up less whitespace. After modifying the stylesheet using the instructions mentioned here, the changes clearly show up in my document in Mathematica.

However, after I export the document to a PDF, either by saving or by printing, my work is undone.

So I've resorted to copying and pasting screen captures of my resume into MSPaint and then printing from there. This is a huge pain.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a setting I have to modify to get my stylesheet margins to stick in the PDF version?

Answer 1

As rm -rf wrote the looks of the printout are by default determined by the Printout style definitions in the stylesheet, and you could try to change those.

However, if you don't feel like that, you could also try to change the printing environment from "Printout" to "Working", so that it uses the changes you already made for your screen layout. You can do that in File > Printing Settings > Printing Environment or by executing

SetOptions[$FrontEnd, PrintingStyleEnvironment -> "Working"]

for a permanent change or

SetOptions[$FrontEndSession, PrintingStyleEnvironment -> "Working"]

for a change that lasts as long as you session lasts.