How to change pdf page size using Acrobat DC

Report · Feb 09, 2016

Easy way to change pdf document page size from US Letter to A4

Report · Dec 09, 2016

Under edit PDF find the crop tool. Draw a box around your page, doesn't matter what size, and hit enter. In the dialog box that opens on the bottom left is Change Page Size. Select custom and change the page to the size you desire.

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Report · Oct 01, 2017

Here is infornation about how to use Preflight in Acrobat DC Pro to scale pages: Scaling Page Content in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - KHKonsulting LLC

To use the crop tool, you need to use two steps: you have to enlarge the page first and the crop it down to the target size. The problem is that Letter is wider, but shorter than A4, the change page size only works if both new sided are at least the original size, in this case, one side would be smaller. In the first step, you size the pages to the height of an A4 page and the width of a letter page, and in the second step you crop the page to the target A4 size.

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Report · Sep 12, 2018

I'm never sure why Adobe never tells you how to do this since it's right in the application. Use the Print Production tool. Click that, then click Preflight. Under the Profiles tab, be sure you're toggled to Pages. Now here's the trick - you'll see 3 little icons next to the Show All tab. Click the Wrench!! Scroll down and you'll see "Scale pages to specified size (Scales all pages of the PDF proportionally to entered value (fit from the inside and add white space)."
Click on the Edit flag. In the fixup category you should be on Pages, Type of Fixup is Scale pages.
Choose the short edge and put in the new size you want. For example, if you're scaling from 34x22 down to 17x11, the short edge is 11, the long edge is 17. Apply to all pages. Or conversely, I was scaling UP 10x5.63 to 17x11. Short edge is 11, long edge is 17. For the adjustment I chose Fit from inside. It took my art and scaled it up from the center to fill the new 17" completely, on the short side it filled the top and bottom with white.

If I were scaling from the 34x22 to 17x11, I would adjust it to "Fit from outside (scale page edges proportionally). It would essentially scale the file at 50%.
Once you find this and work with it, you'll never have to rebuild a file again (as long as you're ok with some white space on a side that can't fill proportionally.

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Report · Nov 27, 2023

Could somebody help me resize one pdf page in Acrobat Pro? I've read this forum but the advice either doesn't work or is written in a way that makes no sense. Which particular steps should I follow to make a page that is 10x larger than the others into the same size? The crop suggestion just . . . crops the page. I want to keep all the information just make it smaller. This seems incredibly simple and yet Adobe, as far as I can tell, has no easy way to do it.

Report · Jan 03, 2025

OK, here's how to do it. All Adobe instructions on this are completely and utterly useless, and you don't need to go into Preflight settings either.

1. File > Print > Choose 'Adobe PDF' as the printer.

2. Set the new page size. To do this, click Properties in the Print menu, go to the Adobe PDF Settings tab, and look for the Adobe PDF Page Size dropdown menu. Here you can select a preset page size (which you can do if all you need to do is switch from A4 to Letter etc.), or set up a custom size with the specifications you need. To set up a custom size, click Add (next to the Adobe PDF Page Size dropdown). Enter the page size you require, and give it a memorable name (under 'Paper Names'). Click Add/Modify.

3. Make sure your new page size is selected in the Adobe PDF Page Size dropdown, then click OK.

4. Back on the Print menu, above the document preview box, you should see the original document size at the top of that box ('Document:'), and immediately under that you should see your new custom page size. Now just click Print, and the Save dialog box will come up. Choose where to save the new PDF. It will be at the new size.

And that's it, you're done.

I have no idea why they make this so hard to find, but once you know how to do it, it's straightforward.