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Re: Resizing 250 page pdf to fit on 8.5 x 11 paper with .5 inch margins

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From: Bruno Lowagie
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:33
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drelliot@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> Right now i have a 250 page adobe document with no margins--each page
> fills the entire 8.5x111 page.
> 
> I need to resize the 250 page document so as to give it .5 inch
> margins.
> 
> I try to resize it by printing it via the adobe pdf printer and
> scaling to 90%, but it gives me an error upon seeming completion on
> all my mahcines.
> 
> Is there some way to resize it while generating the orginal 250 page
> document from indiviodual files?

That's easy to achieve; just change the MediaBox:
Here's an example: http://1t3xt.be/?X000421

Original PDF:
http://1t3xt.info/examples/resources/questions/pdfs/photo_album.pdf
New PDF:
http://1t3xt.info/examples/results/questions/stamppages/new_album.pdf
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:33:14 +0100
From: Bruno Lowagie <bruno@nospam.lowagie.com>
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