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Paper size and image size

lkoerner
Registered: Jul 5 2007
Posts: 7

I have a PDF image that was originally legal size but was reduced to letter size. The judge wants it in legal size. How can I expand the size of the image back to legal size

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi.

The Crop tool in Acrobat can resize your page. Choose Document > Crop Pages to open the Crop Pages dialog box.In the Page Sizes area of the dialog box, click the dropdown arrow and choose Legal from the list.

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lkoerner
Registered: Jul 5 2007
Posts: 7
I did exactly what you suggested. What happened was that I got the larger page size but the same size of text. Unlike photoshop, which I also have, you cannot expand the size and dimensions. What about opening the image up in Photoshop and expanding it that way?

Thank you for your prompt response.

Louis
lkoerner
Registered: Jul 5 2007
Posts: 7
I opened the image in Photoshop and expanded it, which rasterized it, to 8.5 x 14. I had to do the same thing with the second page, but it worked.

Thanks for your help. Your suggestion led me to a solution.
Registered: Sep 24 2005
Posts: 252
Scaling content on the page is different to enlarging the Acrobat crop or media box.

You might want to try re-printing the PDF in Acrobat to the Adobe-PDF printer but with a scaling option. At least this will keep all vector text intact and not rasterise.

Be sure to double check the output since generating a PDF from a PDF (refry) can lead to problems in certain cases ...

Good luck!

Jon

I've been using Acrobat since v1.0 and still get amazed by its power. An Acrobat ACE since 1999