PDFs importing as different sizes when combining into one PDF File

Question

I'm trying to solve a mystery for a friend.

He's trying to combine a number of documents into a PDF using Windows, however the documents he created from an EXCEL file are importing larger than the word documents. They're still an 8.5 x 11 ratio, however they're 2x or even 3x as large.

Is there any reason this is happening and is there a way to prevent or override whatever setting he's using?

We're using Acrobat Pro for Window 10 if that helps.

Thanks

try67 · Accepted Answer

Under Tools search for "Preflight" and run the tool. Then select "Acrobat Pro DC 2015 Profiles" from the top drop-down and search for "scale". You'll see a command to scale all pages to A4. You can run it on your file, or duplicate and then edit it to create another profile that scales the pages to a different size.

try67 · Answer

Each page in a PDF file can have different dimensions. When you combine different files to a PDF it doesn't force them all to be become the same size. There's no way to do that.

What you can do, though, is scale all the pages to the same size after you've combined them. You can do that using the Preflight tool in Acrobat Pro (assuming you have the latest version).

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