How To Adjust The Margins of any PDF- Using ONLY Acrobat

hey guys welcome back to another smarter architect tutorial today we're going to deal with a little bit different topic because I just feel like I'm going through creating a portfolio to show a particular project that we're working on in my professional work and I wanted to address an issue that I wasn't able to address see a video I couldn't find any video that really gave me an answer so I wanted to create one to add to the YouTube world and so here we go and what I'm going to look at in this video very quickly is if you look at this particular spread that I created based on where we are in the project you'll see that I wanted to add a margin to the left edge and that seems like a very simple task but it wasn't the YouTube videos that I could find I just wanted to be able to give myself and if you look at this one you'll see that I was able to add about a half inch margin it's a little bit larger than that but what it does is give me room for spiral bounding so if you're an architecture student I'm sure you'll be printing your portfolio at some point you may run into the same issue but I wanted you to know that there's a solution that I've been able to come up with it may be a workaround but it allows you to get the job done because here was the initial spread right here and by default it wanted to Center in the PDF it wanted to center my margins all the way around and I really want to add an additional margin of that half inch to the left side so let's just quickly go through the steps that I took here and I'm going to use this PDF in this tutorial we'll be done and completely in Autodesk Acrobat Pro DC so if you're using another version the steps are the same but let's get just jump into it so first thing I wanted to do is I just created this PDF of just this sheet so we can go through it I'm going to come here and hit edit PDF so now that we have a PDF up here what I wanted to do is let's go ahead and I'm going to click on crop PDF because in order to add the margin to an edge you'll see that it doesn't allow us to exactly do that so I'm going to just double click here and bring up our menu so you'll see what I really wanted to do is add the margin to the other edge but the best way to do this guys is to actually I when I crop you'll see it crops differently from left to right but I don't want to make the page size any smaller than 11 by 17 which I'm using here so I'm going to hit cancel real quick but I want to show you I'm going to actually come up here and I'm going to hit print and I want to walk you through this because these settings do matter so when I click on my properties up here and I'm going to come in I am going to use high quality print because it matters I'm going to print this at a high resolution for portfolio but the paper size I'm going to change to I'm going to use like an art D it doesn't even matter but I'd say what is important is pick a sheet size that is larger than the page that you want to end up with because it gives us room to work what we're going to do essentially is we're going to add our content to a larger sheet and then we're going to crop it where we can move the crop over right now if you have the exact page size you'll see you can't do that so I'm going to come over here to layout and I'm just going to change this to landscape and see you'll see the whitespace that I've been able to add so I'm like printing this first and I'm just going to drop that on my desktop and let me rename it I've already done this file and anticipation for the class so here you go so now you'll see this sheet and I'm just going to rotate this around here so now we have the sheet where we could move the margins over and do what we need to do so let's go ahead back to where we were with edit PDF you'll see Adobe's just kind of converting the page so that we can modify here a couple of things I want to change so I want to come over here to view show/hide and with rulers and guides let's go ahead and turn the rulers on that will show us exactly you know like this is 36 by 24 is the sheet that I did that PDF print to so I want to start with that and then I'm going to just for myself I'm going to bring myself some guidelines out here to make sure I'm not cutting off any of my text so you'll see I'm just clicking out here at the ruler and I want to make sure I'm capturing and I'll do that from side to side and now I'm going to do it at the top and bottom and I'm just clicking from that ruler area and dragging to make sure I capture everything I want to I want to make sure ends up on my 11 by 17 slide alright so now inside of this let's go back to crop page and I'm just going to double click inside my guided lines that I have now I tend to not use all of these boxes here I'm going to uncheck that but what I do want to do now is I'm just going to come in so I know that my end sheet is 11 by 17 so 11 by 17 I pretty much know here that look I'm going to need to if I just start to drag in you'll let me and I'm using the right margin control right now so I'm just going to bring this in and 36 down to 17 is really 19 inches so I'm going to just change it to 9 inches we'll want to see just how far in that brings me I'll probably be closer to almost nine and a half because I'm trying to still end up with a 17 [Music] widespread 11 by 17 sheet here and then the same thing on the left side however and if you see right behind us in the Adobe so if I move this over there preview the preview gets kind of small but if I use this you'll see let me do let me just change this to nine and a half inches as well so there you go you'll see I'm able to see roughly where that nine and a half inches leaves me on both ends now you'll see that 17 so what I'm going to actually do on with my right margin is I'm going to go even a little bit closer and then I'm going to make the left margin a little bit smaller and you'll see that still ultimately eat leaves me with that same 17-inch but what I've been able to do if you look at that guideline closely and I'm just going to hit ctrl see if it'll allow me to zoom in now it won't allow me to zoom in right now but let me complete the command and we'll come back to it let's do the same thing with our top and bar top and bottom margins excuse me so we know we ultimately want to page size that's 11 foot 11 inches high and this is a 24 inch so we need to get 13 inches cropped out so that's going to be six and a half from the top in the bottom let me do that six and a half top and I'll crop six and a half out of the bottom and you can see the look here I might want to reserve a little bit more at the bottom of my page you can see my page numbers are closer to that bottom margin so once again I might back that down you know another quarter of an inch which means ultimately see I'm at eleven 0.25 inches so that means I'm going to need to also crop the bottom a little bit more so I'm going to move that to six point seven five inches and so you see my crop page and ultimately on the page range because I know that I want to do this if you're working on multiple sheets in your document and you want them all crop the same because you're working from an InDesign file that you know all the sheets are set up using the same template then I'm going to click all sheets so that it crops them all to the exact same dimensions and this is how I would go about it so you're doing a PDF print of the PDF just to create the white space and situate your drawing on a larger sheet then use this set page boxes menu through the crop pages to come in here and modify and you'll see I have if I even if I needed to add another inch of space you know to it it's just as simple as using the more of that white space in this document at this point and all of my sheets now will be cropped the same with the same left binding edge margin so let me click OK here and you'll see right here you can see my guiding edges which make sure all my wordage is captured and I still have that half inch binding edge on the left edge so I hope this video is helpful for you I will show you if you want to come up here to view show/hide you can come back down to rulers and guides and you can turn the guides off when you turn the guides off you'll no longer see them here in your PDF and I'll just hit print arrow hit save to this but that's how you get the flexibility to be able to manage the margin independently you know because I really want to have a larger margin to the left edge of this graphic than the right but starting from just the PDF so you need no other software to accomplish adding a margin to the edge of a PDF this is the process that I'm using and I hope this video has been very helpful for you thanks again for watching guys I know this is a different type of video hit give me a like thumbs up share it with anyone you know who struggle with the same task that I did in preparation for the print of this particular piece yes thanks a lot guys

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Length: 10min 34sec (634 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 31 2017