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Merge into one page

Sivertsen
Registered: Aug 8 2007
Posts: 4

I am working with A3/11" X 17" format. I only have an A4/Letter size scanner. How can I merge two scanned section of a document or a drawing into one page? Can Acrobat do this or is there any plug-ins available?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0.5, Windows
dthanna
ExpertTeam
Registered: Sep 28 2005
Posts: 248
While you don't mention the version of Acrobat - I will assume at least A7.

Two avenues within Acrobat to try - Background/Watermarks - Pull one in on one side, the other on the other side.

TIP: In A7 you can create a new, blank page, by holding down the Shift key when using the mouse and going to File | Create PDF - 'From blank page' will appear on the menu.

For a specific page size, open the JS console, enter in

app.newDoc(x,y);

then press Ctrl Enter
where x and y are the page dimensions in points (1in=72pts)

Other option, scan both documents in then re-print them through the Adobe PDF printer, but select Multiple Pages per Sheet on the Page Scaling.

As for plugin's to make your life easier - Quite Imposing / Quite Imposing Plus is, I hear, a really good one. (note: not affiliated with Quite, other than I owe Aandi two beers).

There is also Compose and a couple of others on the market. If you will be doing a lot of this, get a plugin. Just once in a while the above suggestions will suffice.

Lots of options here - good question!

Douglas Hanna is a member of the Production Print Technology team at Aon.
www.aonhewitt.com