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jt77474
Inspiring
December 11, 2010
Question

How to split A3 scanned pdf into A4, split down middle?

  • December 11, 2010
  • 2 replies
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To save time I scanned part of a book two pages at once, in landscape A3 (UK paper size). I now want to split it down the middle so each page is separate, in A4 portrait.

What's the easiest way to do this? I have acrobat pro extended at my university.

If I could duplicate each page then I could crop the evens one way and the odds the other, but I can't find a way to duplicate each page.

If someone can tell me how to do this (must be extremely common) job  I'd be very happy. Thanks

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      JacobCB
      Participant
      February 3, 2011

      Hi everyone,

      I hope by now you've discovered Briss http://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/ 

      It was designed to do this specifically and is flawlessly fast and easy.  It would be a nightmare to use any of the methods described above.

      jt77474
      jt77474Author
      Inspiring
      December 12, 2010

      I've realised that if I can duplicate each page in the document then it will be easy to apply a crop to all the odd pages, and the opposite crop to all the even pages. Short of pressing the scan button twice for each page, how can I duplicate every page in a pdf, so the order would go from:

      page1

      page2

      page3

      etc

      to

      page1

      page1

      page2

      page2

      page3

      page3

      etc

      So that each page appears twice? This is a pain to do manually for large documents. Please share some wisdom with me, Thanks

      B
      Bill12
      Inspiring
      December 13, 2010

      You should be able to do what you want with JavaScript. I would suggest you check with the Scripting forum as to the process needed. Keep in mind that with the crop you are suggesting, the rest of the page is still there. You could print the combined file to a new PDF or try some of the other redax options (I really don't know much about the redax options) to eliminate the cropped part.

      jt77474
      jt77474Author
      Inspiring
      December 13, 2010

      Thank you.

      Yes, I've noticed all the crop data is STILL there, even after a resave. I tried the inspect document to remove cropped regions but that didn't work either. How do I permanently remove the unwanted crop regions from a pdf? Baffling

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