Adobe Tutorial: How to Print Multiple Pages Per Sheet Page PDF
How to Print Multiple Pages in One Page / Sheet of PDF File?
I’m sure this is a common question. The default printing setting in Adobe Acrobat allows you to choose to print 2 or 4 pages into a single sheet, but doesn’t really tell you how to print more than 4 pages into one page. If you’re one of the few students in the class who know how to print mutiple pages per sheet, your classmates will adore you and treat you like god whenever you give them the pdf files that are ready to print in multy-pages-per-page format. All they need to do is to click the print button and…whoala several pages are printed on one single page.
I’ve created a tutorial to show you how to reformat pdf for multy page printing, since it’s very useful for students to print lecture notes. We all know printer ink is expensive. So save your ink and paper by fitting 2, 4, 6, 9, or even 16 pages of notes into 1 single page effectively and efficiently.
Click here to learn this Adobe Acrobat tutorial
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Sam Tsai said,
December 3, 2005
Drop me a note if you still can’t figure out how to make this method work.
eve said,
January 5, 2006
Sam Tsai said,
January 5, 2006
Are you using professional edition of adobe acrobat? If not, let me know which version you’re using.
eve said,
January 6, 2006
….em..the reader doesn’t have this function?
thanks for replying^_^
Jon said,
January 12, 2006
So if I have a pdf that is 11×17 (Tabloid) how can I easily convert it to two 8.5×11 sheets (Letter) ? I’d prefer something other than cropping even, then odd pages and recombining and sorting them. Thanks for your help!
Sam Tsai said,
January 12, 2006
So you mean you want to cut 11×17 into two halves and print the halves as page 1 and 2 as follows. Correct?
Jon said,
January 15, 2006
Yes, this is exactly what I would like to do, but mine are usually multi-page documents (2 pages of 11×17 to become 4 pages of 8.5 x 11)
Sam Tsai said,
January 15, 2006
Ok, see if this works for you: http://www.samtsai.com/adobe-tutorial-how-to-print-single-to-multiple-pages/
Jaime said,
March 5, 2006
An easier method
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/1993/imprimirmultiplespginas5md.jpg
I hate it when I receive “multi-page-per-sheet” pdfs. It doesn’t allow me to print them as I would like.
neeraj nigam said,
December 1, 2006
works great. Thanks. Should post link to other option as well, though now that it is made clear, the reverse becomes easy. Did this on adobe 7.
sal said,
December 11, 2006
I am printing a 20×30″ document onto 8-1/2×11″ pages. When I follow the directions here, I get a PDF that has the large document broken up in to 8 smaller pieces, and prints as 8 tiny pages on one 8-1/2×11″ page. What’s wrong?
Sam Tsai said,
December 11, 2006
You want to print the entire 20×30 onto a single 8-1/2×11″ page, right?
Make sure you choose the option “Fit to paper”.
Serge Pineault said,
January 11, 2007
I want to do the reverse of printing many pages per sheet. I have a
pdf file which has 4 slides per page and I would like to print each slide
on separate sheets (i.e., standard 8.5 x 11 paper).
Thanks
Serge
Susan said,
July 19, 2007
thank you very much for making this information available - I was able to print 4 per page on letter size, which is all I needed this time.
cheese said,
August 31, 2007
Helpful guide, thankyou. I wasn’t able to landscape my pages, it would always create 4/6/9 per page as a portrait.
Megan said,
September 12, 2007
I have Adobe Reader 8 and the Adobe PDF that is supposed to be shown under printers isnt shown. What should i do?
Tory said,
September 28, 2007
I have Adobe Reader 7 and Adobe PDF doesn’t show up udner printers either? Is this a different program from Adobe Acrobat or what should I do?
Tory said,
September 28, 2007
OK, I downloaded Adobe Acrobat and now everything works except the file won’t print, it just keeps on saving it and not printing. What do I do?
samtsai said,
September 29, 2007
You have to choose a printer. See image below for example. There are 3 things listed on the “Printer” section. Yours will be different from mine.
1 Adobe PDF
2 hp psc 700 series (this is the printer connected to my computer)
3 Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
Once you finished printing your file to Adobe PDF [option 1], you have to change back to the real printer you have (in this case, hp psc 700 series [option 2]) to print the PDF file. Make sense?
samtsai said,
September 30, 2007
Here is another method for printing multiple pages if your adobe acrobat is version 7 and up. In this case, you don’t have to adjust the Printer Name. Instead, you simply choose “Multiple Pages Per Sheet” under Page Scaling dropdown menu.
jena said,
October 23, 2007
this was perfectly done! very helpful. thank you!
Terry said,
November 14, 2007
This was extremely helpful. I did encounter one problem though, after I change the pages per sheet and save the new file, when I open the new file the embedded photographs in the PDF all turn black, thus I still waste lots of ink when printing. Any advice??
It’s quite awful that you can’t print multiple sheets on one page if you only have the reader.
David Parsons said,
May 9, 2008
I am trying to print a multiple sheet excel file into 1 pdf file. Any ideas on how to do this?
If I select the individual sheets or entire workbook, pdf writer prompts for a file for each sheet that is printed. I would like all the sheets to go into 1 pdf print file.
Thanks,
David Parsons