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2010-09-07 11:34:43
DD63
Registered: Sep 7 2010
Posts: 2
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Newbie here...I have a document with a page size of 4.3 x 11.0 created in WordPerfect (that may be my problem) and saved to PDF...When I bring it up in Acrobat Pro 9 Extended or Acrobat Reader 9, it shows up with a zoom % of 188. I don't know how to keep the default at actual size. Do I need to re-create it in Word and do I need to do something special when creating/saving it to retain it's page size? Thanks!!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.0, Windows
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2010-09-07 11:49:21
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
on properties (file > properties) initial view tab > magnification, select 100%, click OK, save the file
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2010-09-08 09:03:48
#2
DD63
Registered: Sep 7 2010
Posts: 2
Thank you soooo much! I missed that....I kept fiddling with the zoom size and trying to make it stick! Haha
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2011-02-14 11:27:27
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clemd973
Registered: Dec 20 2010
Posts: 6
Don't know what my next step is...I scan books in order to generate an eBook. In comparing two eBooks of th same book, one mine, and the other a friend's, mine looks as if it is displayed as A4, and his as if it was 8 1/2 x 11. I'm not so interested in printing the eBooks as I am in viewing them on my iPad. Is there a way to SAVE the compiled .PDF as 8 1/2 x 11 so that it views as a normal sized eBook? (I compile .tiff's into a single .PDF document and save it as a .PDF file.) thanks for your help.
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2011-02-15 19:22:47
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
experiment as follows: starting with a multipage TIF where each page is size A4, open in a tif document viewer (say, microsoft office document imaging, which comes with MS office); print to Adobe PDF printer (at properties set Adobe PDF page size to 'letter'). likewise, starting with a multipage PDF where each page is size A4, open in Acrobat and print to Adobe PDF printer (at properties set Adobe PDF page size to 'letter')
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2011-02-15 19:57:52
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clemd973
Registered: Dec 20 2010
Posts: 6
Thanks, I'll give this a shot.
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2011-02-16 10:35:42
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
rbogie wrote:
experiment as follows: starting with a multipage TIF where each page is size A4, open in a tif document viewer (say, microsoft office document imaging, which comes with MS office); print to Adobe PDF printer (at properties set Adobe PDF page size to 'letter'). likewise, starting with a multipage PDF where each page is size A4, open in Acrobat and print to Adobe PDF printer (at properties set Adobe PDF page size to 'letter')
TIFF files can be imported (and OCRised) in Acrobat and resized directly.
;-)

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2011-02-16 15:17:16
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clemd973
Registered: Dec 20 2010
Posts: 6
Can you elaborate, please?
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2011-02-17 04:16:16
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
Acrobat 9 Pro :
- File menu : Combine : Merge files into single PDF
- Document menu : OCR text recognition : Recognize text using OCR
- Advanced menu : Print production : Crop pages

Beware that Acrobat's cropping is like a mask, it's not a real crop (as usual in Photoshop for example).
If you need a "real" crop you can use the "Resize Pages Tool" plugin, freely available at : http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/65.cfm

:-)

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