Printing multiple pages without resizing

[Timur Born]

Hello.

Is it possible to print multiple pages per sheet without the single pages being resized? This would be useful for pages that are smaller than the destination sheet size.

For example: I am printing poker sized cards, nine cards fit on a single DIN A4 sheet. Currently I first have to use the "Merge Pages" function to get the smaller cards on a larger sheet. I could skip that step if there was an option to just print multiple pages (cards) on a single sheet without the cards being resized.

[Dimitar - PDF-XChange]

Hello Timur,

If I understand you correctly this is what you need to do:

I hope this helps.


Regards.

[Timur Born]

Unfortunately this is not what I mean. The print function as shown by you does resize all pages to fit on the sheet, but I need this without the resizing part. In your example the originally poker sized cards are upsampled to a larger size, because the A4 sheet can hold more than 9 x (2.5 x 3.5 in). As a result each card is resized from 63.5 x 89 mm to 66 x 92.5 mm.

This is no dramatic drawback, because as a paying user I can just use the "Merge Pages" function instead. But it would be nice to get the option to not resize the source pages to fit the destination sheet, especially for free users.

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello Timur,

I have created a feature request for this, as usual no guarantees of implementation, but we will see if it can be done.
#5099: FR: Multiple pages per sheet "Do not upscale" option

Kind regards,

[PhilippBerlin]

Hello Daniel!

Do you have any Updates on this? I too use this function in my old Acrobat X and currently evaluationg PDF X Change (also have already some clients using it as payed version!)

In Acrobat X it is the "default", see the screenshot

[Paul - PDF-XChange]

Hi, PhilippBerlin

the ticket shows as "Open", meaning is did not get done for the upcoming build. The devs are under a huge load, again, we are making changes to help, but there is a great deal to do and this one is still in the pipe.

[josch80]

I also need this feature. The merge pages function is not a replacement for this and quite cumbersome to use as well as similar scaling happens there. The same "No upscaling" option should be available in the merge pages function as well. Thanks!

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, josch80

Thank you for the interest, I have put in another request to raise the priority of this feature, as well as poked the Dev team directly by asking if the suggested handling for the merge pages tool should be a new ticket or part of the same. Hopefully this brings more attention to the discussion and can get us a bit more light on the topic.
Unfortunately as with any development project, we are working on limited manpower, so despite the age of this ticket I still cannot promise that it will be implemented, or offer a timeline for when (at least, not until I get a message from the team confirming if something is done/ready, and what build it would be part of).

[Edit]
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Kind regards,