PDF File is wrong Page Size

Why not make sure when you print/convert the word into PDF, to set the type as you want, presumably, you want it two pages of the document per one page of 8.5x5.5
check when creating the PDF you are not fitting your output to one page. Print option as two pages per page, book style....

Main point, you could possibly do it with acrobat PDF, but IMHO, using correct setting for PDF conversion from the original is better.

I already have Word configured correctly (I think)




Yet in the PDF, it's changed to a full page

I understand that the setting in word is correct for the page. When you convert to the PDF, are you printing it through a PDF printer, or are you using a PDF converter with the word doc as the source and the PDF as the output.
In one of those, when printing using PDF printer, you have to specify that you are printing , two pages of your document to one page of paper (8.5x5.5)
12
or
1
2
it sounds as though when your conversion to pdf it converts page from word to page 8.5x11 in PDF.
IMHO, you will have difficutlies reformating the PDF in acrobat...
let me take a look at word and see whether it has the coversion options. i.e. save as PDF.....

Microsoft Word for Mac, Version 15

> Word for Mac, with the page set to 8.5" X 5.5"

That's a Word file.

> when I open the PDF, the file size become 8.5" X 11"

That's a PDF file.

What software created the PDF file from the Word file? That's likely your culprit. Btw, if the PDF Producer is Quartz PDFContext, there's a chance that's the problem. I recently had a client who sent me a PDF where Acrobat shows these Properties:


The page size shows as 34.22x48.24 inches, but it was scanned as an A4, which is 8.3x11.7 inches. Seems that Quartz PDFContext created a PDF with incorrect metadata in it. Don't know if that's the culprit in your case, but it's worth a look. Regards, Joe

I may have found the source of the problem...

I have "Page Attributes" set...



But when I changed the Dropdown to MS Word, a different dialog popped up.


What should the settings be?

Oops...when I started working on my comment, nothing had been posted yet. I see that a lot has happened since then. I'll review all the posts now and will see if I have anything to add. Regards, Joe

We "crossed in the mail"" as it were...

I see lots of options now...


but am unsure what is the right setting.

I do not have access to a word on mac, but when printing using a PDF printer, I have the option to print/combine two pages from your document to one page of paper 8.5x11... i think what is what you want.

If you compare your word doc page and the resulting PDF are they the same in the terms of content?

oh, the suggested result, seems to match your side by side pages (Landscape). If you change your page to portrait, the stacking will be
page1
page2
versus the current
page1 page2

Newbieweb: You can only crop PDF pages using Acrobat Pro. You cannot reformat the text in a PDF to fit into a different page size.

As already pointed out by Arnold, you need to select Acrobat Distiller or any other installed PDF maker from the drop down printer list in the Word Print options window and set the correct output page size in the Printer Properties page.

You can also save the Word file as PDF if you have the option in your Word Save As... menu.

Good Luck!

Thanks. I have it working. Thanks for the help...

You're welcome. And thanks back at you for the update — great news that you have it working!