Shrunken Pages when Combining Files into a PDF

Question

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.

try67 · Answer

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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