How do you split all pages to same size?

[vonw45762603]

Hi! I am trying to print a book, but some of the pages of it are combined as two pages on a single page. Is there a way I can split up all these pages automatically, making all pages in the book the same size?

[Bernd Alheit]

Read this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-split-a-pdf-with-spread-pages-to-single-pa... 

[vonw45762603]

Hi! I understand what is told in the post. However, I am working on a booklet. Due to this, when I go to handling and select "booklet", I am given no option to tile pages. What should I do?

[Bernd Alheit]

Don't select "booklet".

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

Download this action, unzip it and double-click it to import it into Acrobat Pro:

https://abracadabrapdf.net/parking/AcroUsers/Decouper-planches-en-pages.zip

It will cut all the spreads in two pages.

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[Luke Jennings3]

Are comfortable with InDesign? One option is to use the place multipage pdf script to place all pdf pages into a single page InDesign file, where you can clearly see the spread pages in the pages panel and add a facing page, which will split the spread pages into single pages upon export to a new pdf. The advantage is you can confirm all pages are positioned correctly to the spine and cross-over spread pages (a map for example) will remain as spread pages*. You can add blank pages if needed to move pages to the correct side of the book and insure the total page count is divisible by 2 or 4 (depending on binding).

*change the InDesign document setup to facing pages, after placing the pdf

[vonw45762603]

Thank you, I think I will try this!

[vonw45762603]

I understand what you are saying, however, how do you turn pdf pages all into one long page in InDesign?

[Luke Jennings3]

Create a new one page InDesign file at the desired page size (not facing pages).

Go to Window> Utilities> Scripts> Samples> JavaScript> PlaceMultipagePDF.jsx. (see previous screen shot)*

Go to the little fly-out menu at the top right corner of the scripts panel and select "Run Script".

Navigate to your pdf and click "Open", place the pdf in your new document.

The script will place each page of your pdf into a separate InDesign page.

In order to add a facing page in a non-facing page InDesign file, you need to turn off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle in the pages panel fly-out menu (see screen shot attached), drag a new page close to an existing page until you see a little hand icon and arrow, release the mouse.

Once you have added a facing page to all of your spread pages, you can change the entire InDesign document setup to facing pages and confim all page positions are correct.

*there is a free script that works even better than the sample script that comes with InDesign- Multipageimporter.jsx, you can download it here:

https://creativepro.com/zanelli-releases-multipageimporter-for-importing-both-pdf-and-indd-files/

[Michael K4]

Hello, I found a way to do this automaticly by playing with some print settings in acrobat (I am using the latest version as of 11/30/23. First open your file with double pages and click the button to print. First make sure you are printing to a Acrobat Pdf (found by clicking the box at the top left of the print screen labled "Printer:"). Then select the "Properties" button just to the right of that box. Midway down that box you should see a box labled "Adobe PDF Page size" click the "Add..." button on the right of the window. Here you can type in a new title for this Paper name and adjust the size of the paper. In my case I was splitting a photo copied book that had two book pages per pdf page, so I set the width to 8.5in (standard page size) and set height to 5.5in (half of the standard page size). Then click "add/ modify" and select your newly made page name as your page size. Next, select the "layout" page and click on the "advanced" button near the bottom right of the window. In this window near the top right under the "paper/ output" line select your newly made paper name as the "Paper Size:" click okay on all windows until you get back to the original print window. You should now see a dotted line in the print prewiew, indicating that it work. Finally, click print and select the desired location of your now split document.