a4 to a5

[emerald]

Is there a way to convert an a4 size pdf document to a5?

 

[Cresby]

I looked for this. Basically found nothing in Acrobat. But am delving into Java and I bet there are object properties that can be modifed. If you can reference a page as an object.

I loaded the help pdf and saved as fred then looked at what they did in several areas.

had my document and fred side by side and with "security = none" and thumbnails visible on both files you can cntrl click and drag a page across. SHOCK HORROR it retains the original size though the thumbnail pitch is set by the biggest page it seems. But mixed pages sizes (and by inferrence properties) are possible.

So, quick as a flash I generated some A5 landscape pages in PageMaker and rendered a pdf (with or without content, security = none). Dragged page &/or copies into place and moved contents as appropriate. Links and forms and such have to be re-done. I wanted one set of images per page and use articles or (more recently) forms and Java to cycle through the set and return to the calling page.

Does this answer your question? Generate the A5 in the originating app. I don't see how to start a new pdf in Acrobat (4.0 anyway).

good luck.

 

[emerald]

Thanks for having a go at it. I did it eventually by printing the a4 pdf file to a5 in acrobat writer v.5

When printing using Distiller to print, I specified dimensions of a5 in custom paper size

Print / Properties/ [Paper size/Quality] /advanced / postscript custom page size ... it was at this point that I entered the dimensions of the a5 page

 

[Cresby]

One thing I since tried was to "import" a graphic into Acrobat without an open document. It made a page which I could then "save as" a pdf doc. The size was the size of the graphic (in embedded data terms) and deleting the graphic left the page of those dimensions.

So a way of starting a document if you like and another way of creating pages of any size.

I am fighting shy of Acrobat 5 because I want as much backward compatability as possible. There are a lot of naive users with old old software who blame me for things that don't work and if I haven't considered that aspect they are perfectly correct.

 

[emerald]

do you mean are people using acrobat versions older than v.3?... because documents written to v.5 can be compatible upto v.3 (PDF 1.2)...maybe you already knew this.

anyway there is a great plug-in I found recently called 'Quite Imposing' which merges pages together in Acrobat and does other things to it also which has worked out great for my work... although maybe this is not something you need.