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Easy way to change pdf document page size from US Letter to A4
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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This was the method that I recommended and seems to be the easiest. That being said, someone brought up one issue with it. I haven't confirmed, but someone mentioned that if you have links, when you go through the printing to PDF process, any links will be lost.
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Thanks — yes I'm finding it increasingly hard to justify spending money on software that is so hard to use. I get the sense that Acrobat has the ability to do lots of things that are made so difficult as to be functionally impossible.
When I try this it tells me that I can't save to a pdf via this route, that instead I need to go to File -> Save. Of course when I do this I can save as optimized PDF, reduced size PDF (i.e. byte size, not redimensioning pages), and so on, but nothing that solves the problem.
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I have tried this multiple times but Adobe gives no 'Adobe PDF' option as the printer. I have pages that are roughly 1400x1000mm, which is over a meter long i.e. very large. The file sizes are huge and totally unwieldy, but I don't want to crop and simply cut out information. Rather, I want to reduce the to the size of the whole page to that of a normal (letter/A4) page. Assuming the print to pdf option doesn't work, as Acrobat won't let me do that, what simple steps are there to do this?
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2. Click "preflight" link
3. In the dialog box that launches, click the wrench icon in to top label menu
4. In the list of page sizes that result scroll to A4.
5. Click the "Fix" button that appears at the bottom of the list with the wrench icon.
This should convert your document to the size you want. Here, be mindful you cannot edit the doc while in Print production mode.
1. Close document as "save as" XXX.
2. X out of the program.
3. Reopen the document. You should be able to edit it as you normally would if you are using Acrobat DC Pro. It should also print as a normal 8.5 x 11
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