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I have combined several pages into one pdf Binder. Although all the pages were built on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, inside the combined pdf they are different sizes on the scree. How can I achieve continuity between all the page sizes?
Print to Adobe PDF with "fit" (uncheck from "actual size") in print settings.
You can do this with Acrobat Pro.
Go to Tools> Print Production> Prefilght> FixUps (blue wrench icon)> Pages.
Select Scale pages to specified size
Go to the little fly-out menu and duplicate the prefilght, give it a new name.
Click on Edit, to change the desired final trim size and the method used to get to this size (scale, white border, etc.)
Click on Fix to apply the change.
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So you would like to scale the PDF pages to the same size? or do you mean you want to just expand the page boundaries?
You can use the crop tool, or write a script to set the page boundaries. But scaling is a different issue. One way to do it is to print to PDF. The printer settings will force the pages to all be scaled to fit on to the specified paper size.
I believe my answer here is the same as the response marked as the correct answer.
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Printing to PDF instead of using the Combine feature in Acrobat has fixed the issue, and reduced the overall file size as well. Thank you!
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I have wasted so much time trying to figure this out. When I select Print (to my printer, I don't see an option to Print to Adobe Printer), I then go through the process of selecting my page size in properties and then chose Fit to Page and then there is no way to save this configuration and the page sizes in my document remain all slightly different. I am using Windows 10.
Please advise this is a huge problem and Acrobat should have a more straight forward way to address this problem.
BTW, I have no interest in printing or having anyone else print this document, I want it to be a PDF file with pages of all one size for consistency. Otherwise it looks unprofessional.
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I want the page size to be A5 or somewhere in the neighborhood of 6" x 8.5"
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You can do this with Acrobat Pro.
Go to Tools> Print Production> Prefilght> FixUps (blue wrench icon)> Pages.
Select Scale pages to specified size
Go to the little fly-out menu and duplicate the prefilght, give it a new name.
Click on Edit, to change the desired final trim size and the method used to get to this size (scale, white border, etc.)
Click on Fix to apply the change.
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Hi I have tried that and see no option to scale page size
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:52 AM Luke Jennings <forums_noreply@adobe.com>
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You can select one of the existing preflights, duplicate it, and edit it to make it do what you need.
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This was so helpful, Luke. Thank you so much!
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This is the actual solution. THANK YOU.
Kinda crazy adobe makes this so hard to find.
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Thank you. This is ridiculously complicated but glad it worked.
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where is little flyout menu
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I don't understand how this worked for so many. I tried the duplicate and edit, went through the different adjustment methods of the fix up, and several pages in the PDF are still ending up extra large.
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The pages that were the right size are now extra small :/.
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This has been so helpful thank you 😊
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Excellent response, thanks so much. I had to change it to 'Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Profiles' menu at the top centre (green library icon) to find the Scale pages option.
So happy this worked 🙂
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What version of Acrobat do you have?
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I assume I have the latest version, I downloaded it from Creative Cloud
last week.
How do I duplicate one of the page fixes as you suggested above (so that I
can make it do what I want it to do)
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okay, I duplicated and instructed a 6 x 9 page size and then applied it to
all pages and it did not work. In the case of one page out of the 100, it
shrunk the page to 4 x 6 ... other pages are still uneven .... so ... ????
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I agree that this is ridiculous! I am finding none of the recommended options (when I switch to Adobe Acrobat DC 2015 Profiles, I only have two "scale" options--they only related to A4 sizing and I don't see how to edit them). I have to turn to Mac Preview to do this every time I need to, and I lose my bookmarks--I want to scream!!!! This is such a simple file manipulation, I don't see why it's not more of a priority.
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I finally found instructions on where to find more scaling options here: RESIZE PDF . It is still WAY too complicated. I'm begging for a better solution!!
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Goodness why don't they just have a tab for that?!
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I HAVE THE SOLUTION!!!! For anyone whom the above does not work for....
I too have spent hours on this over the past 2 years scouring the internet for a solution to this annoying situation. Using the suggestions above with regards to going to Print and then selecting 'Print to Adobe PDF' (did not work for me, said 'invalid parameter??) I have tried a few other things and found one that works!
Go to Print and selected 'MICROSOFT PRINT TO PDF', save with a new file name. Then open it and TA-DA!!!!
Hope this works for you too!
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Thanks, that worked for me. I had 2 A4 pages that were showing different widths when I combined them in a single pdf.
It's fixed now. When you choose 'MICROSOFT PRINT TO PDF, make sure you click to select SHRINK OVERSIZED PAGES. It's on the PAPER SIZING AND HANDLING section of the print box.