Some files in Excel for Mac 2011 will not print to PDF correctly.

First with version 14.0.2 and still with version 14.1, on Mac OS X 10.5.8

Due to known & likely bugs with updating corrupting Outlook, "just update" is not an option, especially as it's not guaranteed or even implied to fix this issue.

With *some* documents - but not all, when using print to PDF (with either the built-in OS X feature and/or with Acrobat Pro X),
and attempting to scale the document to Fit 1 page wide by 3 pages tall (or thereafter any other scaling),
the cels don't take up the full page and the last page, the cels are pushed up to the top of that page instead of using the whole of the available page.
The first noticeable symptom is that the preview in the print dialog window is *blank*

Logging in to/with another account on the same machine, the problem does NOT happen.
On another workstation with matching OS and Excel version, the problem does NOT happen.

I have set aside *all* contents of the user/Library/Preferences folder and logged out and back in, no change in the problem.
I have verified the fonts using FontBook, resolved a duplicate font issue for Verdana (being used in the file in question), no change in problem.
I've intentionally changed the font to something else, no change.

Cleared caches (including those as located via:  getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE ) and rebooted, no change.

What possible setting file that is user-account specific could be causing this problem ?

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