PDF Software to Split a Page in Two?

gregburbidge · Sep 28, 2009, 10:56 AM

Does anybody know a good program to split a pdf page in two? Not splitting a pdf into two pdf's, but one page into two pages within the pdf.

I have some articles at work that were photocopied 2 pages into 1. Now they are pdf's, but I want to split each of those pages in half. I have had terrible luck with PDF clerk pro, where I have to take 8 steps and it makes duplicates of all pages in the process.

I have documents with a large number of pages, so I'd prefer not to having to do it one page at a time.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

GGJstudios · Sep 28, 2009, 11:08 AM

Adobe Acrobat.

gregburbidge · Sep 28, 2009, 11:54 AM

that's what I first assumed, but couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there an obvious function I'm missing in acrobat?

GGJstudios · Sep 28, 2009, 12:00 PM

As I no longer have a need for Acrobat, I don't have it installed, so I can't show you the exact commands. However, you should be able to edit any .pdf file and make whatever changes you want. You should be able to delete information from a document. You could save two copies of the doc, then open the first copy and delete the 2nd half of the page. Then open the 2nd copy and delete the first half of the page. Then join the two pages into one document. If, however, the scan shows up as an image in the .pdf, you'd have to crop the image to remove what you don't want.

gregburbidge · Sep 28, 2009, 12:12 PM

I think that would be easy if I was working with a few pages, but I have some docs that are over 100 pages long. Does anyone else know if there is an easy way to cut the pages in half to make 1 page two separate pages?

gregburbidge · Oct 5, 2009, 01:07 PM

Finally figured out how to make it work in PDFClerk Pro. There was a problem with the program and I had to choose export to pdf before splitting it, then when I reopen it I can split all the pages at once.

Never did get it to work well in Adobe.

Sep 28, 2009, 10:56 AM	#1
gregburbidge macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2009	PDF Software to Split a Page in Two? Does anybody know a good program to split a pdf page in two? Not splitting a pdf into two pdf's, but one page into two pages within the pdf. I have some articles at work that were photocopied 2 pages into 1. Now they are pdf's, but I want to split each of those pages in half. I have had terrible luck with PDF clerk pro, where I have to take 8 steps and it makes duplicates of all pages in the process. I have documents with a large number of pages, so I'd prefer not to having to do it one page at a time. Any advice greatly appreciated!

Sep 28, 2009, 11:08 AM	#2
GGJstudios macrumors 601 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas!	Adobe Acrobat. __________________ ǝlƃooʁШ ʎɹʇ ¿suoıʇsǝnb ǝɥʇ ʞsɐ noʎ ǝɹoɟǝq sɹǝʍsuɐ puıɟ oʇ ʇuɐʍ

Sep 28, 2009, 12:00 PM	#4
GGJstudios macrumors 601 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas!	As I no longer have a need for Acrobat, I don't have it installed, so I can't show you the exact commands. However, you should be able to edit any .pdf file and make whatever changes you want. You should be able to delete information from a document. You could save two copies of the doc, then open the first copy and delete the 2nd half of the page. Then open the 2nd copy and delete the first half of the page. Then join the two pages into one document. If, however, the scan shows up as an image in the .pdf, you'd have to crop the image to remove what you don't want. __________________ ǝlƃooʁШ ʎɹʇ ¿suoıʇsǝnb ǝɥʇ ʞsɐ noʎ ǝɹoɟǝq sɹǝʍsuɐ puıɟ oʇ ʇuɐʍ

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Sep 28, 2009, 11:54 AM	#3
gregburbidge Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2009	that's what I first assumed, but couldn't figure out how to do it. Is there an obvious function I'm missing in acrobat?

Sep 28, 2009, 12:12 PM	#5
gregburbidge Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2009	I think that would be easy if I was working with a few pages, but I have some docs that are over 100 pages long. Does anyone else know if there is an easy way to cut the pages in half to make 1 page two separate pages?

Oct 5, 2009, 01:07 PM	#6
gregburbidge Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Sep 2009	Finally figured out how to make it work in PDFClerk Pro. There was a problem with the program and I had to choose export to pdf before splitting it, then when I reopen it I can split all the pages at once. Never did get it to work well in Adobe.