Can I resize pages in Acrobat?

[Onelittleblacksheep]

Hi,

I'm in a rush to get my graphic design portfolio requirments done for my portfolio class at VCU.  Please help if I don't finish it I don't graduate with my BFA!!!  Ok I am over exaggerating but if I can resize this in Acrobat Pro it will save lots of time and I'm going insane from all the stress.

I have to resize all my portfolio pieces so they are within an 8 1/2 x 11 page format.  My current pdf portfolio has all my pieces at all random sizes. I have about 39 pages some are horizontal magazine layouts and some are vertical posters.  So when I resize everything will be on a page with some white space depending on the page.  I can go into indesign and do this but that will take hours cause of importing large files.  If I could just resize in Acrobat Pro (I have 9.1) I could be done soon.  If it can't be done then I'll just have to do it the hard way, but I need an answer asap.  I can't find anything that helps on the net.

Or if I can't resize my pages in this program does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may do so quickly?  Anything to avoid importing page by page into indesign...  I have the full adobe CS4 suite so I can work in any of those programs or if there is some free program that will work too.

Thank you!

[Onelittleblacksheep]

Hi,

Update. 

I thought I could print the document as a second PDF.  Acrobat crashes every time. Any insight?

[Onelittleblacksheep]

Ok, I'm printing sections at a time and it is working I believe.

Apparently I solved my own problem before anyone could respond.

So if anyone else is trying to resize pages in adobe acrobat you can just select adobe as your printer and change all the options for printing so it will resize the way you want too.  Then you print and you will have a new PDF document.

[~graffiti]

Sorry you didn't get an answer but yes, Printing to the Adobe printer works much like an actual printer. You can choose an 8.5x11 page size and set scaling to fit to page.

[MichaelKazlow]

Printing to PDF is not recommended. It can do bad things to your pdfs (transparencies, font embeddings changed).

[~graffiti]

Good point. What I meant to point out (it was a little late for me) is that you should print to the new PDF from the original file.

[Phillip M Jones]

Apparently,  you can't do it in Acrobat 9 .2 anyway. (Make /Print a Pdf from a Pdf or re-fry)

The to do it, use to be, was you make your correction, (example to make a permanent crop) was that you desire the either go to apple's Print to PDF or use AdobePDF printer.

[_mori]

In Acrobat Pro this functionality can be found within the "Crop Pages" Section: