I am using Acrobat Professional 8 to assemble a document from two imported page images (JPGs). Acrobat seems to interpret the images at screen resolution, and creates a document that's about 35' by 46' instead of 8.5' x 11'. How can I scale down the page size within Acrobat?

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A few options, in roughly increasing order of difficulty:

1. The easiest way I can think of would be to print it to the Adobe PDF (Distiller) driver with 'Shrink to Fit' turned on.

2. Copy and paste the images into a blank 8.5x11 PDF file and then use the TouchUp Object tool to scale it down.

3. If your version of Acrobat has the Print Production tools, go into the cropping tool and change the various boxes to be 8.5x11 (multiply by 72 if you need to give the dimensions in points) and then use the TouchUp Object tool to scale the image.

(These are all possible in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9, which is what I have. I think all three should be available in version 8, but I'm not completely sure.)

Within Acrobat Professional, do this:

1. go to tools/crop
2. make a crop mark were ever on the page
3. hit return
4. This will prompt you to verify the size, if its correct hit OK. I like to do it more accurately then drawn, so I remove the margin controls and choose 'change page size'. Make it whatever size then center it.

It most cases I use this when I want to replicate the trim from the printer.

Format page size A5 in Adobe Acrobat X: Start - Control Panel - Printer & faxes - Adobe PDF (Distiller) - Preferences - Adobe PDF Settings - Paper Name = A5 (type with blank after A5) - when Add/Modify.

Printing to a new size destroys layers. If you want everything intact, use the Print Production, Preflight, Gear icon, Pages, Scale pages to specified size, enter long and short sides in millimeters. It also has presets for A4 and to only scale page content rather than the entire page.

If the PDF isn't protected, you could try printing the PDF into another PDF of the page size you want. If Acrobat won't print to the Acrobat printer (like it is protected), I've use third party PDF tools (free ones) for Acrobat to print to and it worked fine.

Alternately, you could print the images into the page size you want and resolution you want, then combine the PDFs together.

Using Adobe Acrobat Pro v10.1.4. Had a request to insert jpgs into a pdf file so that they were full page in the pdf. Some of the jpgs were quite small. Opened the jpg, choose Print - select Full Page - deselect fit to frame - print to Adobe pdf file. Go to Acrobat, create pdf from file(s), select (all) the pdf files created from the jpg(s) - Open - Save

I found the easiest way to do this is to export the .pdf to another program such as PowerPoint or Word and resave the resultant .pptx or .docx file as a .pdf. This took my 7.5 x 10 .pdf to an 8.5 x 11 in pretty much 10 seconds.

A good to crop or resize PDF pages:

Hope this will help!

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Does anyone know how to change the dimensions of each page on an Acrobat document.
Also how can I see the dimensions of each page seperately??

For example I have a 3 pages document. The first 2 pages are of the same dimensions 8.2 x 11.6 inches. However the 3rd is smaller. How do I make it larger?

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With Mac OS X and the more recent versions of Acrobat Pro, the PDF printer option does not work. What does work is doing basically the same thing in Preview App. Open the multi page file in Preview, select File>Print. In the Print dialog set your sheet size as if you are using a printer. You may want to select 'Auto Rotate', 'Scale to Fit' and 'Print Entire Image'. Then in the lower left corner is the drop button 'PDF' and in that menu select 'Save as PDF'. Give it a new file name, click Save and then you can open the resulting file in whatever PDF app you want and the sheet sizes are the same.

You have to use the Print to a New PDF option using the PDF printer. Once in the dialog box, set the page scaling to 100% and set your page size. Once you do that, your new PDF will be uniform in page sizes.

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The page sizes are looking different in your PDF because the images were originally set to different DPI (even if images are identical HxW in pixels). The good news is - it's only a display issue - and can be fixed easily.

An image with a higher DPI value would display smaller in a PDF (displays at the 'print-size' of the image). To avoid this, open each image in an image editor like GIMP or Photoshop. Open relevant image print control dialog box and set a suitable uniform DPI info for all the images. Remake the PDF with these new images. If in the new PDF images are too big - redo the DPI setting for each to a higher value. If in the new PDF pages are too small to read on-screen without zooming, again - redo DPI adjustment, this time put a lower DPI value. Ideally, 150 DPI should be good enough for images of 2500X2500 pixel - on a 17 inch monitor set to 1366x768 resolution.

BTW, the PDF file shall print each page at the specified DPI of that page. If all images are same DPI, you'll get a uniform printing.

Hope this helps :)

• Open the PDF in MacOS´ Preview App
• Chose File menu –>Export as PDF
• In the export dialog klick the Details button an select your page size
• Click save

All pages of the resulting document will be scaled to that size. The resulting file size is nearly identical to the original PDF, so I conclude, that image resolutions/compressions are not changed.

Hints:

1. I am not sure whether the 'Export as PDF' menu item is available by default or only if Adobe Acrobat is installed.

2. My first trial was to use Preview App and print (!) into a new PDF, but this leads to additional margins around the page content.

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The above works,(having an original document with mixed pages of 11' and 16' wide). However auto rotate needs to be off otherwise landscape pages are saved with page white top and bottom, so dont work in full screen view.

Solution is to re open the new PDF in acrobat and crop the first image (carefully to avoid white border), then select page range i.e. all, this then applies to all pages.job done !

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