Problem: Pages in a PDF document are of different sizes

Solution: Fix in Adobe Acrobat.

• Mac users: See How to change the size of a PDF page using Acrobat Preflight tool on Mac.

• PC users: Follow the instructions below.  Note that these instructions are for Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017.

Instructions

1. Go to Tools > Protect & Standardize > Print Production

2. Select Preflight from menu in right-hand sidebar

3. Click on "Select Single Fixups" icon (see image below)

4. Select "Pages" to expand menu, and then "Scale pages to specified size" (see image below). Select "Edit."

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5. Enter desired page measurements under "Scale pages." See image below. For a standard 8.5 x 11 document in "Portrait" format, this will be:

• Short edge: <shortedge:8.5>

• Long edge: <longedge:11>

Click OK.

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6. Click "Fix." A new window should pop up. Click OK there too. 

7. Preflight will rescale your document pages - this may take a while. Save the new rescaled file.

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