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Divide a 17x11 pdf page perfectly in half

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2009-08-13 08:19:18
emidland
Registered: Aug 12 2009
Posts: 6
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I have a 17x11 pdf Magazine cover. I need to divide it perfectly in half. I need to put the pages in sequential order in front of the the guts of magazine and post it on our site. I am using Acrobat 8 and the only thing I can find is the crop tool. I can crop it and save it as a separate page however they don't always come out the exact same width in the final pdf. There are no tick marks to go by either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1.6, Windows
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2009-08-14 00:17:58
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
i assume the 17x11 is a scanned image. import into photoshop (ps elements or any image edtor) and crop as desired (two at 8.5x11) and save each one as PDF in separate files.
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2009-08-14 07:20:13
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emidland
Registered: Aug 12 2009
Posts: 6
Thanks so much for your help. I will give it a try.
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2009-08-19 09:08:06
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emidland
Registered: Aug 12 2009
Posts: 6
Just for information purposes, I did find a way to split my document. I stumbled across a ruler feature in Acrobat 8.
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2010-05-05 12:51:17
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
this is best accomplished using an image editor like photoshop or photoshop elements to construct the page with the two (or more) side-by-side images.

however, you can use acrobat's touchup object tool to do it, but it can get a little tricky. here are the basics:
1 - create a blank page (file menu > create PDF > from blank page). i assume your blank page is set to create at 8.5x11 (edit menu > preferences > new document)
2 - optional: kill the text editor (document menu > prevent further edits)
3 - optional: rotate the page to landscape
4 - save (but dont close)
5 - open the 8.5x11 image file, the one you want to paste twice on the blank page just created
6 - with touchup object tool, left click to select the entire image; important: resize (grab the lower right corner) so that the image will be smaller in the vertical dimension than the page created at step 3, right click the resized image and execute copy
7 - bring up the page saved at step 4 and paste what you copied at step 6
8 - with touchup object tool resize (grab the lower right corner) as necessary.
9 - paste the image a second time (like step 7) and resize as necessary (like step 8)

now you should have two replicas of the original image pasted to an 8.5x11 (landscape). with touchup object tool you may resposition the pasted images. you may need to experiment and to adapt the basics described here to your particular needs.
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