Resizing pages within a PDF (without printing) in Acrobat Pro DC

[Jennifer F.]

Hi all,

Is there a way to resize a PDF filled with a hodgepodge of page sizes in a way that standardizes the size of every page within a single PDF?

We receive many individual documents from clients and need to assemble those pages into a single PDF (or we receive a pre-assembled PDF with a mixture of sizes), and one page might be enormous resolution, and one fairly average or smaller. We'd like to shrink all the big stuff so the document contains pages that are all a standard letter-size page and a reasonable resolution that's the same or similar across all pages within a single document.

I know there are tools online that will do this, but because of the nature of our documents, we need to keep them local and cannot upload them to the internet.

Is there a way to do this in Adobe? Or is there a downloadable plugin or application that will do this?

Thanks so much in advance.

[Amal.]

Hi Jeniffer

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you want to resize PDF pages.

Are you on Mac or Windows Machine and what is the version of the OS?

Please check out the suggestions provided in a similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/change-pdf-page-size-using-acrobat-dc/td-p/8017289  and see if that helps.

Regards

Amal

[Jennifer F.]

Hi Amal, my apologies for the delay. I had some connection issues.

We are using Win10.

That thread is interesting, but not quite what we are looking for. We are a high volume firm with many documents to process, and so far it seems like most solutions require a significant amount of interactivity. I'd really like to be able to say/button/series of keystrokes once per file, and have it "take this document and resize everything down to 8.5x11, while still remaining legible."

Do you think this is possible?

[try67]

You can create an Action or Custom Menu Item that executes the Preflight profile mentioned in that thread to scale the pages of the file.

[Luke Jennings3]

Use a preflight profile, as suggested. Start with an existing profile, duplicate and edit it so all pages get resized to letter size. Once your preflight profile is working and saved, you can use the Action Wizard tool to create an action that uses the resize profile. You can quickly apply the action to a file, or a folder of files. Note, you may need to export the profile to your desktop, then import it back into Acrobat (using the fly-out options menu) in order for it to be available to the Action Wizard tool. You can also optimize the PDF to downsample high res images, you can add this step to your action (save as optimized PDF).

If you have a large, high res image (a map for example), and you resize and resample it to letter size, some of the type may become illegible, in this case, you could resize that page, but not downsample, or provide a link on that page to a full-size version.

[Laney555]

Aloha Luke, 

I have the same problem, and unable to make all documents into the same size after combining them in Adobe Acrobat DC for Windows. One PDF is a downloaded Google document, the 2nd is a cover page PDF created through Canva. The cover page is way bigger that the Google docs PDF. 

I tried to follow your Preflight instructions, however, I do not have a "scale pages to specific size" as an option. See attached image. 

I also did the print/fit option to have the page sizes align, however, I have a PDF w/image that bleeds, so a white border is created on the left and right of the cover page, which I am trying to avoid. 

Would apprecaite any clarifications. Mahalo!

[Bernd Alheit]

At the top dropdown select a other library.

[Luke Jennings3]

I'm not sure the scale page preflight will account for the page bleed, I believe it works from the overall PDF size.

Are you comfortable with InDesign? I would create an InDesign file at the desired size and place the PDFs into it, adjusting the size & position to insure correct bleed, then export to a new PDF. 

[Gusknust]

What I do is print the pdf file TO PDF.
I choose ADJUST TO PAGE and make sure the paper format is the one I want - usually A4 - and print it to a new file. If you think it's lost too much quality, before printing it go to ADVANCED SETTINGS and set the dpi value (if it is 72 or 150, it will really decrease the quality of your pages) to higher than 300 dpi.
I hope it works for you.