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Dave5F97
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October 24, 2020
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Splitting a single pdf page into two

  • October 24, 2020
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I'm trying to turn a series of A4 pages with 2 A5 pages on them into a series of two separate A5 pages to create pfs of each A5 page to give to a printer to turn into a booklet. I can get individual A4 pages with difficulty from the 8 A4 pdf file but then when I try and split the single a4 pdf into 2 the programme says there are already 1 or less pages, it won't let me put in 0.5 pages. It doesn't seem to want to allow me to crop the page down to A5 size and save it. Does anyone know how to do this? The search comes up with pretty much everything but the solution to my particular problem!

Dave

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Correct answer Dave5F97

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It seemed obvious to me that that would be the way to do it but it wouldn’t work until I reinstalled Acrobat – it took me 5 attempts and a technician 2 hours working my machine online before I got it properly installed – no idea what was the problem but it seems to be working now.
Dave

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Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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October 29, 2020

You'll find a free page resizing tool here:

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

 

It doesn't split the pages, just crops or expands them to the specified size.

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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October 24, 2020

You can do it easily using this (paid-for) tool I've created exactly for this task: http://try67.blogspot.com/2013/12/acrobat-split-and-sort-scanned-booklet.html

 

Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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October 24, 2020

You can use the crop tool at Tools > Edit PDF

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Dave5F97AuthorCorrect answer
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October 24, 2020

Thanks
It seemed obvious to me that that would be the way to do it but it wouldn’t work until I reinstalled Acrobat – it took me 5 attempts and a technician 2 hours working my machine online before I got it properly installed – no idea what was the problem but it seems to be working now.
Dave

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[Phone, email, and address removed by moderator to protect you. Please be careful with automatic signatures when replying by email.

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