Adobe Acrobat Shrink Page Size

  
Adobe Acrobat Shrink Page Size Rating: 5,0/5 9387 votes
Active2 years, 3 months ago

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?

kpozinkpozin
9537 gold badges20 silver badges25 bronze badges

How do I shrink a PDF file? Not file size, mind you, but the physical page size. I hear this question with some regularity! Some courts have very strict requirements for document margins, print area, and so on. For example, a court or government agency may require that Bates stamps appear 1/2 inch. Scale or resize PDF pages in Acrobat or Reader for printing - Automatically scale to fit paper Choose File Print. From the Page Scaling pop-up menu, select one of the following options:Fit To Printable Area Scales small pages up and large pages down to fit the paper.Shrink To Printable Area. Here are the steps for how to compress PDF in Adobe Acrobat X (Adobe Acrobat X Standard or Adobe Acrobat X Pro). Open PDF with Adobe. Open the PDF file you need to compress by going to File Open, browsing and locating the PDF file. In the Properties dialogue box, check the real size of the current PDF file.

8 Answers

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.)

Steve SimmsSteve Simms

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.

Adobe Acrobat Shrink Page Size Calculator

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

TomTom

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.

I.C.CorjanI.C.Corjan

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.

Scott McClenningScott McClenning

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

NancyNancy

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.

LucentLucent

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.

TJ DiamantiTJ Diamanti

A good to crop or resize PDF pages:

Apogee maestro mac download. Apogee Maestro is the first audio interface control application made for Mac and iOS. Featuring a single window design, and multiple tab interface for quick access to all device and system settings, Maestro makes software control of ONE, Duet, Quartet and Symphony I/O. easy. (.Symphony I/O is Mac.

Hope this will help!

r0car0ca
5,0049 gold badges36 silver badges63 bronze badges

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged pdfeditingadobe-acrobat or ask your own question.


Page scaling lets you shrink or enlarge pages when you print. You can:

Acrobat can size the pages of a PDF to fit the selected paper size.

  1. From the Page Scaling pop-up menu, select one of the following options:
    Fit To Printable Area Scales small pages up and large pages down to fit the paper.
    Shrink To Printable Area Resizes only large pages to fit the paper and prints small pages as they are.

Tip: (Acrobat only, not Adobe Reader) You can set up a PDF to default to specific scaling or print options. Choose File > Properties, and click the Advanced tab. Select options for the Print Dialog Presets. The Default option in the Page Scaling pop-up menu is Shrink To Printable Area. Save the file to apply the new defaults. For more information, see Print Dialog Presets in Acrobat Help.

Adobe Acrobat Scale Page Size

Not available in Adobe Reader 9: Scale using the preset scale options inAdobe Reader 9 or earlier.

You can magnify or reduce a PDF by an exact percentage.

  1. From the Page Scaling pop-up menu, select Tile All Pages to expose the Tile Scale % option.
    Note: If the tile options are not in the menu, make sure that the following options are not selected in the Advanced Print dialog box: Print as Image or, for Acrobat only, Separations or In-RIP Separations.

  2. For Tile Scale, type the percentage you want to magnify or reduce the PDF. Click any other option to refresh the preview on the right.

Adobe Acrobat Set Page Size

More like this

Adobe Acrobat Shrink Page Size Pdf

Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat Shrink Page Size Of Pdf

Twitter™ and Facebook posts are not covered under the terms of Creative Commons.

Adobe Acrobat Change Page Size

Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy