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courtneyk98067615
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August 29, 2016
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changing page dimensions in batch

  • August 29, 2016
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Hello,

I'm using Adobe Acrobat DC to work with a few thousand pdf documents which were scanned over many years, with some being letter sized and others much larger in dimension. I need them all to be letter sized in order to allow for the addition of a cover page that can be properly viewed on the web. Right now I have been resorting to printing a new pdf and shrinking the oversized pages for the larger files, deleting the old file, and inserting the cover page with an action, but obviously this is very time-consuming given the number of documents I'm working with. Also, when I print the new pdfs, the OCR which had been previously run on the documents is lost.

Is there any fast way to standardize the dimensions of a batch of pdfs?

Thanks,

Courtney

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Correct answer Karl Heinz Kremer

Printing a PDF file to PDF is almost always a bad idea and (as you found out) will always degrade the quality of your PDF file. Which version of Acrobat do you have? In Acrobat DC Pro, you can resize a PDF page by using a Preflight function. This preflight profile can be called from an action, so you could then use the Action Wizard to process multiple files with just a fe mouse clicks.

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nurult6954047
New Participant
June 23, 2017

Whenever I hit scan button from "Adobe Acrobat Pro DC" getting below message and could not able to scan any documents.

Please input some valid page dimensions.

Can you tell how to correct this issue?

Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz KremerCorrect answer
Braniac
August 29, 2016

Printing a PDF file to PDF is almost always a bad idea and (as you found out) will always degrade the quality of your PDF file. Which version of Acrobat do you have? In Acrobat DC Pro, you can resize a PDF page by using a Preflight function. This preflight profile can be called from an action, so you could then use the Action Wizard to process multiple files with just a fe mouse clicks.

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courtneyk98067615Author
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August 30, 2016

Thanks for your response. I'm using Pro, and have found a profile in the Preflight function that allows me to scale pages to a custom size without printing a new PDF, but when creating a new action and selecting a Preflight profile from the drop down, this particular profile does not show up. My only options for scaling are 'Scale pages to A4' and 'Scale pages to A4 if not larger than A3'. Is there a way to add the custom scaling to an action?

Thanks

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courtneyk98067615Author
New Participant
August 30, 2016

Nevermind, I was able to create a new profile according to my specifications and add it to an action. Thank you for your help!

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