Resize NEW Acrobat document to A4

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May 13, 2020
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Hello together,

I have a little problem where I cannot crop/resize the page/document of a NEW Acrobat document.

I need the format to be A4 (21cmx29,7cm) but the format opens with 21,59cmx27,94cm so I cannot downsize the document.

I did not find any setting to change the default size and the customer support could not help me and told me to ask in the forum.... (Next expert appointment I could schedule is in 2 weeks, which is way too long)

I hope you have the right solution 🙂

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Thom Parker

Community Expert

Are you converting a document in another format to PDF? or creating a new blank page?

When converting from another format, it is the conversion app that determines the size, usually the size in the orginal format, but this may or may not be an option on the conversion settings.

For a new blank PDF you can download a free a tool to create it to whatever size you want:

https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

try67

Community Expert

Cropping and resizing are two quite different things... The former can be done using the Crop Pages tool under Tools - Organize Pages, but that doesn't scale the contents of the page, just changes its size.

If you want to scale the page you can do it using the Preflight tool in Acrobat DC Pro, or with a script, like this (paid-for) ones I've created:

http://try67.blogspot.com/2013/08/acrobat-scale-pages.html

http://try67.blogspot.com/2018/09/acrobat-scale-pages-non-proportionally.html

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