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This content has been marked as final. Show 1 reply. Re: Split One Page PDF Into Multiple Pages Karl Heinz Kremer Feb 16, 2017 9:45 AM (in response to explorelife007) You need to duplicate the page six times, and then use the crop tool to crop out the portion of the original page you need for the corresponding page. How to Split PDF Files - Adobe Acrobat Open the PDF you want to split in Adobe Acrobat. Click the 'Tools' button on the left side of the window. Expand the 'Pages' section of the Tools panel. Click the 'Split Document' button. Set how many pages you want each new file to be.

Is there an easy way (in Preview or whatever) to scale up and split a PDF file with a single page into multiple pages? What I would like is to split say an A3 paper document into two A4 pages, to print separately and then put together with tape.

How can I do such a thing in OS X?

Juan A. NavarroJuan A. Navarro

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Adobe Reader can do this, too: It includes a Poster Print option in its custom print dialog.

It’s the first time I missed a feature from Preview (or the native OS X print dialog) that Adobe Reader has.

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Adobe Reader is free (as in beer) software, it used to be called Acrobat Reader. (Do not confuse it with full-blown Acrobat or any other expensive Adobe product, which can probably do that, too.)

CrissovCrissov

If you in Preview select the half of the A3 (e.g. use the Inspector ⌘+I so you get the exact size) - then choose Copy ⌘+C, and paste it as a new file ⌘+N (my suggestion would be to save each new file as its page number). After that do the same with the other half of the A3.

If you save every new file as its page number, then afterward you can select all the new files in Finder. Once they're all selected, right click and choose Quick Actions > Create PDF (available in macOS Mojave). You'll have a new PDF that is composed of every pdf you had selected.

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Rene LarsenRene Larsen

After googling, I found that 'Preview.app' and 'Automator.app' can handle this job.

Open the pdf file in Preview.app
Show Thumbnail
Select all pages
From Menu, choose 'Tools' - 'Select Tool'
Select right side of a page to crop
From Menu, choose 'Tools' - 'Show Inspector'7, On the 'Inspector' window, choose 'Crop and rotate inspector'
Push 'Crop' button (in 'Selected Pages' group)
From Menu, choose 'File' - 'Print', and choose 'PDF' - 'Save as PDF...', and save as 'right.pdf'
Do same thing(4-7) for left side and save as 'leftside.pdf'
Start Automator.app and make workflow with following actions.a. 'Get Specified Finder Items' (choose 'leftside.pdf' and 'rightside.pdf')b. 'Combine PDF Pages'c. 'Move Finder Items'
Run the Automator workflow.

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Yoshioka TsuneoYoshioka Tsuneo

A small JAVA program called Briss will do exactly this job.

Peter H. GruberPeter H. Gruber

Preview cannot do this unfortunately, but an $5 application called Tiler does this with ease.

Hope this helps.

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I have been searching for a free solution for this and I stumbled a java app called 'briss' which does what it promised perfectly. http://briss.sourceforge.net

user3158user3158

Briss is wonderful, exactly what we needed to divide each sheet from a pdf file into two parts. To create the selection for the second half of the page, draw a border on the uncovered portion of the first selection on the pdf page. To display sizes right click on the every selection, and select 'Select / Deselect rectangle'. Also, you can read the help :). Thanks!

VasiVasi

See pdfposter (you can install it with macports):

moalamoala

If you have Illustrator you can simply create a document with several letter size artboards and place the PDF.

YëcoYëco

You print to PDF with the following setting:- change page setup to A4 size (if the original document was in A3)- then print..

for the other side of page, you need to rotate the original file and do the same as above..

aditiaaditia

Select option to print -> Poster This will split your page into your default page size(for letter size 8 x 11)you can select tile scale to zoom within this split page. You can also select overlap. You can select labels so you know which page goes where.

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