Resize PDF pages
Every page scaled onto the paper you actually print on.
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Example
Example: a US lease on Letter and Legal paper, made A4 for printing in London
lease-agreement.pdf comes from a US landlord: two Letter pages (8½ × 11 in) and a Legal addendum (8½ × 14 in). The tenant is in London and prints on A4. Settings: Paper A4, How to scale “Fit the whole page”, Orientation “Follow each page”, Margin None.
- Each page is scaled as large as it will go while still fitting whole on the sheet, then centred.
- Letter is wider and shorter than A4. It is scaled to 97.3 %, fills the width exactly (210 mm) and leaves 12.6 mm of white at the top and the bottom.
- Legal is much taller. It is scaled to 83.5 %, fills the height (297 mm) and leaves 14.8 mm of white on each side.
- Press Resize. Every page of lease-agreement-a4.pdf is A4, with the text still selectable. Print it at 100 %.
| Page | Setting | Scaled to | On the A4 sheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Letter | Fit, no margin | 97.3 % | 210.0 × 271.8 mm, 12.6 mm white top and bottom |
| Legal | Fit, no margin | 83.5 % | 180.3 × 297.0 mm, 14.8 mm white each side |
| Letter | Fill | 106.3 % | 9.7 mm cut off the left and the right |
| Legal | Fill | 97.3 % | 24.4 mm cut off the top and the bottom |
| Letter | Fit, 10 mm margin | 88.0 % | 190.0 × 245.9 mm |
| Legal | Fit, 10 mm margin | 77.9 % | 168.2 × 277.0 mm |
Three A4 pages with nothing cut off: the Letter pages print almost full size, and the Legal addendum is a little smaller. “Fill” would have cut 24 mm off the top and bottom of the addendum, enough to lose a signature line, so keep “Fit” for contracts and forms.
How it works
- Add the PDF — a letter-size document that needs to be A4, or a mixed-size scan that needs to be one size.
- Choose the paper size you print on.
- Leave it on “fit the whole page” unless you want the sheet covered edge to edge.
- Download the new PDF and print it at 100 %.
Frequently asked questions
- Letter and A4 are nearly the same. Why does it matter?
- A4 is narrower and taller. Printing a letter-size PDF on A4 without resizing either crops the sides or leaves the whole page shrunk and off-centre, which shows on anything with a footer or a page number.
- Does the text stay selectable?
- Yes. Each page is drawn again at the new size as a vector, so text stays text and nothing is rasterized. Links and form fields do not survive the redraw.
- What does “fill the sheet” lose?
- Whatever falls outside the paper once the page is scaled up to cover it — usually a few millimetres from two edges. Use it for photographs and backgrounds, not for documents with margins.
- Can I just add margins instead?
- Yes, the “add margins to a PDF” tool does that without changing the paper size.
- How much smaller does a Letter page print on A4?
- Hardly at all: it is scaled to 97.3 %, so 12-point type prints at about 11.7 points. The page fills the width of the A4 sheet and leaves 12.6 mm (about ½ inch) of white at the top and bottom. Going the other way, an A4 page on Letter is scaled to 94.1 %.
- Can I put Legal pages on Letter paper?
- Yes: choose Letter. A Legal page is scaled to 78.6 % to fit its 14-inch height into 11 inches, and leaves 23.1 mm (about 0.9 inch) of white on each side. The type gets smaller, so check that small print is still readable.
- Is my PDF uploaded, and what are the free limits?
- No. The pages are redrawn in your browser and the file never leaves your computer. The free plan takes one PDF of up to 20 MB per run and 5 runs a day; Pro removes these limits.