Resize PDF

Choose one or more PDFs, then the paper size: A4, Letter (8.5 × 11 in), Legal, A3, A5, Tabloid (11 × 17 in), 4 × 6 in for shipping labels and photos, or a width and height you type in millimetres or inches. Every page of every PDF is changed to that size, and you download the resized PDF, or all of them in one ZIP.

“Fit the page” scales each page's content up or down until it fits the new size, keeping its shape and centring it, so nothing is cut off but white edges may be left. “Fill the page” scales it to cover the whole page and trims what sticks out. “Keep the size” doesn't scale at all: the content is centred on the new paper as it was. Portrait or landscape follows each page, so a wide chart stays wide, unless you choose one for every page. A picture of each PDF's first page shows the result before you download it.

The pages' content is not redrawn: it is placed on the new page with a scale, as a printer's “fit to page” does, so text stays text and images aren't re-compressed. Links, form fields and comments move with it, bookmarks still jump to the same spot, and the document's title and attachments stay. To cut the margins off pages first, use Crop PDF; to reorder or delete pages, use Organize PDF; to resize a PDF to 1 MB or another file size, use Compress PDF.

Opens up to 50 PDFs of up to 100 MB each, and keeps the resized PDFs in memory until you leave the page. Damaged PDFs that your PDF reader repairs on the fly may not open here. Typed sizes run from 10 mm to 200 inches a side, the largest page PDF readers accept.

Scaling changes the size of everything on the page together: shrinking Legal to A4 makes small print smaller, and enlarging a 4 × 6 label to A4 makes scanned pages look softer, as any enlargement does. With “Fill the page” or “Keep the size”, what falls outside the new page is hidden, not deleted: it is still in the file, as with cropping. Form fields keep their font size, so a reader that redraws a field may show its text larger or smaller than the scaled page around it.

The PDF is written out again, so its size can change a little. A PDF that opens without a password but blocks printing, copying or editing is resized as it is; for one that needs a password to open, type it. Restrictions and passwords are not carried over to the resized PDF. A digital signature in the PDF shows as no longer valid after any change, resizing included; the page warns you when it finds one.