Split a two page landscape spread pages into single portrait pages

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January 26, 2019
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Oh great gurus of the WWW....I have a question for you!

Vendors send me pdf's of their catalog, but they are setup in a two page landscape spread. I want to simply cut all of the pages in half down the middle and turn them into single landscape pages. So the number of pages will essentially double in the document, but when viewing on Ipad, it is much easier to see the pages

Is this function hidden in there somewhere and I just cannot find it? I found another small bit of software out there that can do this, but it seems as if the leader in PDF software should have this function within its basic set of tools

Any help, ideas, or if this just is not a function of this Acrobat Pro...please let me know and tell them to make it so!

Thank you in advance for any replies!

Again...just cut all of the pages that are set up like below...in 1/2 vertically down the middle of the page.

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franz_Nussgruber6814

Participant

There is a built in function, although this might be linked to a resolution loss:

1. open the document, and print it in tiles, with zoom the fit can be manipulated ~125 % for A3-> A4,
2. print using the Adobe pdf printer

3. check your document, experiment with the printing dialoge to get the order and arrangement right,

4. using the crop function on a correctly ordered document (or order manually if not to much pages), you can even trimm the additional white space easily.

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Lesley26123170v9j8

Participant

Go to View menu - Page Display - Single Page View. Then if you want, you can extract single pages. No cropping or duplicating required.

try67

Community Expert

There's no built-in function that does that. The way to do it is to duplicate each page and then crop out half of it, alternating from left to right...

I've actually developed a (paid-for) tool that allows you to do it with a single click. If you're interested you can find it here: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Split Pages in 2 Parts and Combine to a New File

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petec5072972Author

Participant

Thanks for your reply. I will continue to use the other little program I found that does this. I find it hard to believe that Adobe does not have this function available.

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Ché Weston

Participant

Hi,

I have the same issue what program is it you use ?

Kind Regards.

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