Resizing pages in Adobe Acrobat Pro

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?

asked Feb 19, 2010 at 22:51 1,708 9 9 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges How are you generating the PDF in the first place? Commented Apr 5, 2010 at 2:20 Try Evermap Autopagex plug-in. – user111541 Commented Dec 30, 2011 at 15:21 Print it as 8.5x11 and have Adobe Acrobat PDF printer engine sample it down for you. Commented May 9, 2016 at 15:20

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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.)

answered May 27, 2010 at 3:58 Steve Simms Steve Simms 2,072 14 14 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges

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.

answered Feb 6, 2017 at 6:03 128 4 4 bronze badges

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.

answered Aug 24, 2012 at 13:32 141 5 5 bronze badges

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.

answered Nov 7, 2012 at 10:22 29 2 2 bronze badges I think the OP wants to do this after the fact. Commented Jan 23, 2015 at 15:26
  1. Click ‘Print’
  2. Set printer to ‘Adobe PDF’
  3. In ‘Page Sizing & Handling’ > Disable ‘Choose paper source from PDF page size’
  4. Click ‘Properties’ at the top next to ‘Printer’
  5. Go to ‘Layout’ tab > Click ‘advanced’
  6. In ‘Paper size’ choose ‘Postscript Custom Page Size’ and edit page size as needed.
  7. ‘OK’ everything and back in original ‘Print’ menu click ‘Fit’ under ‘Page sizing & handling’
  8. ‘Print’ to PDF
answered Jul 20, 2023 at 16:23 11 1 1 bronze badge

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.

answered Sep 22, 2010 at 1:40 Scott McClenning Scott McClenning 3,593 19 19 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges

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

answered Mar 5, 2014 at 19:51

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.

answered Jun 8, 2017 at 21:07 TJ Diamanti TJ Diamanti

A good to crop or resize PDF pages:

Hope this will help!

answered Feb 19, 2010 at 22:58 5,765 10 10 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 66 66 bronze badges This discusses a third-party commercial product. My question is about Adobe Acrobat. Commented Feb 20, 2010 at 2:08

I know but I did not see it so I thought proposing you a Third-Party apps could be usefull if you need to resize asap. Sorry about that.