Multiple Page Sizes in Adobe Acrobat

Many applications allow you to create multiple page sizes in a single document, but not all applications are capable of exporting them as such. Take Microsoft Word, for example. The trouble with Word is that it also allows you to create multiple page sizes but it doesn’t let you export them to a single PDF file. As soon as the PDF writer encounters an alternate page size, it saves it to a separate PDF file. Then it goes on to save the rest of the standard-size pages in yet another file, until it encounters another alternate page size, and so on and so forth. In the end, you wind up with a bunch of PDF files when all you really want is one!

Luckily, Adobe Acrobat Professional makes the solution fairly simple.

To save a Word document with multiple page sizes into a single PDF:

1. Save the Word document as a PDF using either the Save As or Print command.
2. Open the first PDF file in Acrobat and choose Document > Insert Pages. Select the PDF file you want to add to the document and click Select.
3. Specify where to insert the page(s), and then click OK.

The pages from the second document are added to the first right where you told them to go. Continue this process until all the pages from your Word document are restored in their rightful place.