How to get two-page 11x17 layout into 8.5x11 PDF?

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September 1, 2011
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Good morning,

I am working on a 11x17 brochure which will be folded to appear as 4 pages. Naturally, I would also like to have the PDF so it "prints" into 4 separate pages. However, I just cannot seem to figure out how to accomplish this. I am using InDesign CS5 and my pages are sized to 11x17 in my document.

It seems this should be fairly straight forward to do. If anyone can please explain what I am missing, I would really appreciate it. At this point I am starting to conclude what I want is not possible to do without re-laying it out in a document with 8.5x11 pages. Please tell me I am wrong!

Thank you for your time in advance,

Brent

Correct answer allisonlopez

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I accomplished this by doing the following:

File > Print. Printer: Adobe PDF
Page Scaling: Tile Large Pages
Tile Scale: 100% Overlap: 0 in.
OK to create the PDF.

With this method, I did not have to manually reorder the pages.

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allisonlopezCorrect answer

Participant

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. I accomplished this by doing the following:

File > Print. Printer: Adobe PDF
Page Scaling: Tile Large Pages
Tile Scale: 100% Overlap: 0 in.
OK to create the PDF.

With this method, I did not have to manually reorder the pages.

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Michael34336133wk9l

Participant

Saved me so much time, thank you!

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Anonymous

Here is my klugey solution:

1) Print the file to the Adobe PDF maker

2) For "Page Sizing & Handling", select "Poster". I set the Overlap to 0 in, and reduced the scale until each 11x17 page fit onto two 8.5x11 pages

3) Click "Print" and save to a new file

You then have to manually go and reorder the pages -- easiest way is to split the pdf into separate files, one page per file, then recombine them in the correct order.

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Nickk422

Participant

I do not have inDesign yet, and am using CS4 Acrobat Pro and this is how I've done it in the past.

Go to Document --> Crop Pages or just press Shift+Ctrl+T. Then under Margin Controls set them all to "0" except for the left, which should be 8.5 inches. Hit OK and temporarily save as a new file name.

Go back to original file and repeat above process for right side and save under another new file name. You can now go to Document --> Insert Pages and insert the first page before this page. Save