Depobook Court Reporters & Stenographers

I commonly hear from customers who need to Bates Stamp on top of documents which go “Edge to Edge” such as drawings and so on.

While Acrobat cannot shrink pages directly, there is a workaround that is fairly easy to do.

Let’s assume you have an 8.5 X 11 page and need to Bates stamp the bottom of the page.

Here’s what to do:

1. Go to Document–>Crop Pages

2. In the “Change Page Size” area, click the “Custom” radio button.

3. Set the Width to the current width of your page to 8.5. Set the Height to 12.

4. In the Page Range section below, choose All if you will resize multiple pages.

5. Click OK

6. Bates Stamp your document as usual.

I know what you’re thinking, this makes the document larger, not smaller … True, but here’s what to do next:

If you only need to print the document, choose File–>Print and change the Page Scaling to “Reduce to Printer Margins.”

If you want to permanently reduce the size of the document, just choose “Reduce to Printer Margins” and print to the Adobe PDF print driver.

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