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Very bad idea!!

“Refrying a PDF” by printing to PostScript and distilling to get a new PDF is absolutely NOT an Adobe-recommended fix or workflow!

Besides the fact that this hack only works on Windows, it also has the potential of effectively ruining the PDF file since it eliminates color management, flattens transparency, and removes other optimizations that may be in the original PDF file! (Flattening transparency degrades quality and may interfere with the ability to properly search the document's text).

Also, Kit Anstey did not indicate whether they wanted to scale the file's contents, simply change the margins, or both!

To simply increase the page size and in this case increase the margins, the Set Page Boxes (Adjust visible page area) tool of Acrobat DC will accomplish this task. If you need to scale the content on the page, there is the Scale pages and Scale page content fixups in Acrobat Pro DC Preflight.

                - Dov

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GardenerDave
GardenerDave
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February 28, 2018

I want to create a 6" x 9" document (importing from Word 2010). In order to publish a print-on-demand Amazon book.

I'm rather amazed that information is not easy to find in your support documents.

Karl Heinz Kremer
Community Expert
Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 28, 2018

If you have Adobe Acrobat DC Pro or Adobe Acrobat 2017 Pro, you can use this method: Scaling Page Content in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - KHKonsulting LLC

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YatharthSCommunity Manager
Community Manager
March 14, 2016

Hi kita36726542 ,

Please try this step :- 

Open the Document in Acrobat ,then go to Print Menu. Then got to 'properties' > Layout > Advanced > then from Paper Size option select the option for 'PostScript Custom Page Size'.

From there you may set the Page Size to 10x12 ,then select OK . Then on Clicking 'Print' will recreate he document with the size of '10x12'.

Let me know if it works.

Regards,

Yatharth

Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
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March 14, 2016

Very bad idea!!

“Refrying a PDF” by printing to PostScript and distilling to get a new PDF is absolutely NOT an Adobe-recommended fix or workflow!

Besides the fact that this hack only works on Windows, it also has the potential of effectively ruining the PDF file since it eliminates color management, flattens transparency, and removes other optimizations that may be in the original PDF file! (Flattening transparency degrades quality and may interfere with the ability to properly search the document's text).

Also, Kit Anstey did not indicate whether they wanted to scale the file's contents, simply change the margins, or both!

To simply increase the page size and in this case increase the margins, the Set Page Boxes (Adjust visible page area) tool of Acrobat DC will accomplish this task. If you need to scale the content on the page, there is the Scale pages and Scale page content fixups in Acrobat Pro DC Preflight.

                - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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