Resize a PDF without uploading it

When a printer, a form, or a client wants A4 and your PDF is Letter, open Resize PDF. The new pages are made in the browser you already have open. The PDF is not uploaded.

Two jobs share one name

People say "resize a PDF" for two different jobs. One is changing the paper size, from Letter to A4 or from A3 down to A5. The other is making the file smaller so it fits an email or an upload box.

Resize PDF does the first job. It changes the page dimensions. If the problem is megabytes, you want Compress PDF instead. Picking the right one first saves a round of wondering why nothing fit.

When the page size is the problem

A scanned contract comes back on Letter and the office prints A4. A form wants every page on the same size, but the PDF is a mix of receipts, scans, and exports. A booklet has to go from A4 down to A5.

These are the files I would least like to upload somewhere. A contract, an ID scan, a bank letter. Resize PDF keeps the work on the device. The privacy page states the same rule. There is no account in the way.

Sizes you can pick

The presets run from A1 to A6, plus Letter, Legal, Ledger, Tabloid, and Executive. Each one can be portrait or landscape.

When none of those fit, use Custom. Width and height can be in millimeters, inches, or PDF points. One inch is 72 points, and A4 is 210 by 297 millimeters.

If the PDF has pages of different sizes, every page lands on the size you pick. Mixed pages come out as one size. The pages are not turned into images, so text stays sharp and you can still select it.

Fit, Fill, Stretch, and Center

The four modes decide what happens when the old page shape does not match the new one.

• Fit keeps the proportions and scales the whole page into the new size. Nothing is cut off. You may get margins.
• Fill covers the new page and crops what spills over.
• Stretch fills the page by pulling it to the edges. It can distort text and shapes.
• Center puts the original page in the middle of the new one without scaling it up. If the original is bigger than the new size, part of it can sit past the edge.

For a contract or anything with text near the margins, start with Fit. Use Fill only when losing an edge is fine. Leave Stretch for pages where a little distortion does not matter.

A new file, not a replacement

The download is a new PDF. The one you dropped is still on the device. If Fill cropped a signature or Stretch bent a chart, you still have the original and you can run it again with Fit.

You can drop one PDF or several. The same size and mode are used for every file. Several files come back as one zip.

Before and after

A password-protected PDF cannot be resized here. Unlock it first with PDF Password when you know the password, then come back with the unlocked file.

If the pages are the right size but turned the wrong way, use Rotate. If you only need part of a page, Crop PDF is the closer tool. If the next job is putting files together, go on to Merge PDF.

To check that nothing was uploaded, press F12 and open the network panel while it runs. The page loads its own app code and a worker. Your PDF is not in that list.

How to

1. Open Resize PDF. Drop one PDF or several.
2. Pick a size. A1 to A6, Letter, Legal, Ledger, Tabloid, Executive, or Custom. Choose portrait or landscape.
3. Pick a mode. Fit, Fill, Stretch, or Center.
4. Check the page preview, then press Resize PDF.
5. Download one PDF, or a zip if you dropped several. The original is still on the device.