Maximizing printing space

[manu1231]

Hello everyone, I regularly print two column page texts (scientific articles) in a "two-page per sheet" format, but some files turn out with really small text and content.

To minimize "blank-space" in the printing sheet to the least amount, which would be the minimum margin the printer accepts, I have done the following:

- Crop pdf margins to fit the text both vertically and horizontally.

-"Print" the pdf to a new pdf document using the adobe printer with the "fit" option selected and A4 page selected, so that all pages are maximized.

The reason I'm asking for your help is because I always turn out with large vertical margins due to the fact that pdf proportions are mantained, and as such, I cannot use them because the horizontal margins are maxed out.

TL;dr : Can you think of anyway I could stretch my pdf vertically (deforming the content, I know) and therefore use all the printing space?

[ls_rbls]

Hi,

Please review the following guidance posted Test_Screen_Name:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/crop-a-pdf-file-does-not-works-in-acrobat-pro-dc/m-p/10821996... 

[manu1231]

Thank you for your reply, but I have already accomplished that step, what I am asking is different. What I would like to do is stretch the content in one direction like this.

[ls_rbls]

So if I understood correctly when you say stretch content we are just referring to text from a scanned page?

I would recommend using "Edit Text & Images". 

Good short tutorial here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/how-to/edit-text-images-pdf-files.html

It works just like editing text in a word processing app. You will need to be a little creative and combine mouse dragging gestures, like, dragging and moving the text box up in the document as high as you want it to be, then with the keyboardinserting text lines in the text box to continue to expand the text downward in that document page.

[manu1231]

That's a good sugestion, unfortunately I had already tried that with no success, as the editor only applies to one page at a time, and is unrealiable due to the fact that it selects text boxes and pictures randomly instead of the whole page as one, which alters the page configuration when trying to resize. Also it doesn't really increase text size, only space between letters.