How to make a PDF page larger? (wider or taller than original)

[flacro]

Is there a way to make a PDF page size larger and/or to change its proportions by ADDING space?

Note that I want to ADD white space. I do not want to crop with the crop tool, which only makes the existing page smaller.

In PhotoShop this is easily done by expanding the canvas size. You choose a dimension, select where to add the extra space and add it.

I have a book layout that is positioned incorrectly on the PDF output. It just needs to move about .25 inches but it would be a difficult job to redo the entire text block in InDesign.

Thank you

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[George_Johnson · Accepted solution]

In Acrobat 9, select: Document > Crop Pages > Change Page Size

Acrobat 10: Tools > Pages > Crop > double-click page > Change Page Size

You can select a page range too.

[Mya Memories]

I tried your solution but it gave me an error message of "Page size may not be reduced". I'm trying to go from 8.5X11 to 8.75X11.25. Am I doing something wrong?

[Amal.]

Hi @Mya Memories

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

If you are on Mac, please go through the help page https://adobe.ly/48NM5Ek

If you are on Windows ,follow the steps below:

1. Open the PDF, go to Print and select 'Adobe PDF' under printer

2. Go to 'Properties' > click on Add, next to Adobe PDF page size

3. Add custom paper page size, name the page and enter the page dimension and the unit you need > click on Add/Modify. Once done, go back to Adobe PDF page size and select your custom page.

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Regards

Amal

[Mya Memories]

Thank you so much for your response. But following your process I now get an error message "No allowed to modify system or printer defined paper size. Only user defined paper size can be modified or deleted." Do I need to change to another setting?

[Daniel Flavin]

A well prepared InDesign document can accomplish  this.

If the text frames were set to the page margins, Layout > Layout Adjustment > Enable Layout Adjustment

Go to the master page, change the margins (Layout > Margins and Columns) and the whole document wide frames will adjust accordingly.

FWIW