How can you split a sinlge page pdf into multiple pages?

[Sean_McD]

We are scanning pages that are 8.5" wide and about 10' long. All is a science report printed from a machine.

We can scan the page and end up with a pdf that's 8.5"x10', but we want to see about splitting up the single page into multiple pages. Can this be done with Acrobat Pro?

I've looked into the printing option, but the sizes are automatic and there's no option to split the PDF into 10 pdfs. How can this be done?

Thanks,
Sean

[try67]

This can be done using a script. Do you want to split each scanned page into 10 equal parts, then?

[Sean_McD]

These are sceintific reports. They're about 5" wide and run from 5' to 20' long. They physical paper and must be kept as is. We can scan them, but it makes a PDF that size. I was wondering if there was a way to split the one page into mutiple pages instead of the actual size. Is there was a way I could split up the PDF into multiple pages every 11"? I played with the print/Adobe PDF, but it was very limited and automatic.

[responsible_coconut]

Print to Adobe PDF - click the properties button at the top, go to the paper/quality tab, select the advance button at the bottom, click the paper size, select postscritpt custom page size, this will pop up a window that will allow you to enter the size of the page you want your final documents to be, I think you are saying 5"x11"? so put that in the appropriate boxes, then click ok until you are back at the print screen, then select poster. 

I tried it with an 8.5x11 scan because I don't have your huge file, and it worked perfectly. 🙂 hopefully this works for you!

[Sean_McD]

I tried doing a postscript custom page size, but it didn't change anything. It stayed at 8.5"x11". Nothing ever poped up asking for the page size I wanted.

[responsible_coconut]

have you tried selecting the poster button in the center of the print screen? if you have your defualt paper size set up at 8.5x 11 it should automatically tile the print to create the longer version. I have used it to piece together a larger poster image, but haven't tried it for a long sheet before, but might work 🙂 

[Sean_McD]

I learned that I can split them up into separate pages, but the pages they're split up in are set sized pages, so I might have to play with it.

The other part I found was I might want to spit the whole thing into certain page length, but I can set an over lap of .2", so if a line is cut in half, one of the pages will have it fully viewable and there is too much of a copy on both pages.