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PDF files are a popular format for distributing electronic documents online. Although created and owned by Adobe, the PDF format has since been made available as an open standard, so you can open and view these types of files using a variety of free programs. Resizing a PDF document to fit an A4 page is generally a bit trickier, as the free Adobe Reader software cannot edit the files. The easiest way to resize a PDF to A4 is to print it in the correct format, but for a digital conversion, you need additional software.
Convert Pdf To A4 Size
Printing
1.Hi I have created a document comprising text, photos and lines in Word 2007 which is A3 in size and landscape in orientation. When I save it as a pdf in Word, the resulting document comes out A4 in. The A4 paper size is measurement of paper with dimensions of 8. How to Convert to the A4 Paper. How to Convert Microsoft Project 2007 Files to Adobe PDF Format.
Double-click the PDF file you want to resize to open it with the default reader installed on your computer. If no PDF reader is installed on your computer, the official Adobe Reader is available for free from the Adobe website (see link in Resources).
2.Click the 'Print File' button at the top of the reader. Select the 'Fit to Printable Area' option from the drop-down menu next to 'Page Scaling.'
3.Click the radio button next to 'All' under 'Print Rage' to print the whole PDF document. Alternatively, click 'Pages' and enter the range of pages you want to print.
4.Click 'OK' to start printing the PDF. Provided your printer is set to print A4 documents, the PDF pages will be shrunk or enlarged to fit the page size.
PDF Print Drivers
1.Download and install a PDF conversion program such as PDFCreator, CutePDF Writer or doPDF (see links in Resources). These programs all work in the same manner by giving a PDF printer driver to your existing reader so that the file can be 'printed' to a new, resized PDF.
2.Double-click the PDF file you wan to resize to open it with the default reader installed on your computer. If no PDF reader is installed on your computer, download and install the free Adobe Reader from the Adobe website (see link Resources).
3.Click the 'Print File' button at the top of the reader. Select the 'Fit to Printable Area' option from the drop-down menu next to 'Page Scaling.'
4.Select the name of the PDF converter from the drop-down menu below 'Printer.' Click 'Properties,' then click 'Advance' and select 'A4' as the paper size.
5.Click the radio button next to 'All' under 'Print Rage' to print the whole PDF document. Alternatively, click 'Pages' and enter the range of pages you want to print.
6.Click 'OK' and enter the filename as well as location to store the resized PDF. Click 'Save' to finish the process.
Tip
- For smaller PDF files (under 5MB in size), you can use a free online PDF resizer such as the one from Neevia Technology (see link in Resources). This site allows you to upload the PDF, enter the resizing settings, then download the converted document again.
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I need a variation on the example given in answer to the following question: How to convert an existing A4 PDF document to an A3 booklet?
I have more or less the same requirement, but I don't want the consecutive pages to appear side by side on the same page.
Convert Pdf A3 To A4 Converter Online
For instance: if I have the following file
I want the output to be like this:
- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-C7-T2Eefr8RDBXUEg3NFQwTDg.
Please suggest me how to do using iText.
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When a book is printed, the machines that print the pages actually print on much larger pages, and that larger page is then usually cut and folded. You'll see that most books have a total number of pages that is dividable by 16. For instance, when I wrote my 'iText in Action' books, extra pages with advertisements for other books were added so that the total number of pages would be a multiple of 16.
This shows how pages are typically printed:
(The image was taken from a blog entitled 'Page counts explained')
We can easily convert a document with A4 pages to a document with pages 8 times the size of A4, where we add 8 pages of the original document to a single page in the new document, organized the way is shown in the above image. This is done in the MakeBooklet example:
In the manipulatePdf() method, we create a loop in which we add 2 pages. On each page, we add 8 pages of the original PDF, but we add these on very specific places. For the bottom row of 4 pages, we introduce a translation (we move a4_width to the right for every new page). Then we introduce a rotation to add the top row of pages (they need to be upside-down).
That's fun isn't it? Actually, it's just a matter of Math (and Math is always fun). You can find the result here: book16.pdf
Print A3 On A4
Your question is less fun because it's so simple. You don't even need to rotate your pages! Take a look at the MakeBookletA3 example:
Now we only create 2 pages in the loop, and we add 2 old pages to every new page. The result: book4.pdf
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