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Kristen Gwinn Becker
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August 30, 2017
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Shrunken Pages when Combining Files into a PDF

  • August 30, 2017
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I need to combine several scanned documents into one PDF file. It works most of the time, but in a few cases, Acrobat Pro DC shrunk certain pages (seemingly at random) and I cannot figure out why. So, in one example, I combined the pages it shrunk separately, and they worked just fine. But as soon as I tried combining them with the pages that were not shrunk- you guessed it- it shrunk the same exact pages. Any ideas why this is happening? They are all roughly the same size and dimensions. I've also tried it on multiple computers in my office of various kinds and ages with the same results.

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    try67
    try67
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    August 30, 2017

    Acrobat doesn't do that. What might be happening is you're combining files with different page sizes and then it looks like some pages are smaller than others, when in fact they are the same as in the original file, only they appear smaller in the combined file, compared to the other pages.

    If you have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC you can use the Preflight tool to scale all the pages to the same size. If you have an earlier version you can use an imposition plugin, or a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Scale PDF Pages

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    Kristen Gwinn BeckerAuthor
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    August 30, 2017

    Thanks for the quick response!

    The shrunken pages are 1/20th the size of the other pages, and they are only different in file size by .1 MBs, and different in dimension by a centimeter or two. It's definitely not just cosmetic because no matter how I open the combined file, it always shows them in their shrunken state.

    I also can't scale the pages because that would mess with the integrity of the documents I'm trying to digitally preserve.

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    I too am having this problem. I am trying to add 3 pages/file together to create a pdf and out of the 3 two are smaller. All three are same size because I create all pages same size. I have been doing this for few months but recently yesterday I started having this issue. What is the reason or how can I make the pages bigger like the first one?

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