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Resize multiple PDF pages from A4 to A3. - pascal079 - 09-12-2026
Hello,
I am French and am posting this with the help of a translator. I use GIMP 3.2 on Linux Mint.
I have a multi-page PDF in A4 landscape format, and I would like to resize all the pages to A3, also in landscape format.
Is this possible, and if so, how?
Thanks.
RE: Resize multiple PDF pages from A4 to A3. - rich2005 - 09-12-2026
I hope you can understand this.
It is possible using Gimp 3.2
(1) Start with a new A3 canvas from the Templates. If you are using Landscape set the orientation.
(2) File -> Open as Layers and load your A4 PDF into the A3 canvas.
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(3) The A4 layers should already be selected.
(4) Use the Unified Transform tool to scale to the canvas size - Drag the handles to the A3 size.
(5) Export as a PDF.
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What are the snags ? It is now a very-very large file-size graphic based PDF.
A better non-gimp way is using ghostscript in a terminal. This is a Mint 22.3 laptop and ghostcript gets pulled as a dependancy for lots of programs, it should be there.
Code:
gs -o outputA3.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a3 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPDFFitPage -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 input.pdfChange input.pdf to your file name.
looks like this and you can check the PDF properties using the Mint file viewer.
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