

MacOS’s Preview app’s print dialogue won’t let me print a single page pdf onto multiple pages.

Is there a general term for these kinds of problems? When you search for “splitting pdf” or “crop pdf” or “separate pdf pages” the results assume you want to take a pdf document with several pages in it, and remove some of the pages, without affecting individual pages themselves. This is a hard-to-Google problem, in that all the ways to specify it are ambiguous for the purposes of a search engine. In fact, most of the current pdf management tools seem unprepared for non-standard pdf page size. Fortunately, the layout of the big pdf is such that we can split it into a single column we don’t have to have split the page left-to-right, only vertically. I want to split these into pages so that they’re ready to print on a 8.5″ x 11″ paper. I have several single-page pdfs with page sizes that are much larger than 8.5″ x 11″. Unfortunately, this is not “ready to print” yet. The plugin outputs the page as a single page large pdf, like so: I had to use a plugin (which I now forget, because I’ve since switched computers and it was a few months ago) to print these broken webpages. However, for some crazily-made websites, this doesn’t work and creates broken formatting. Normally, you can just print a webpage to pdf from the browser. URLs or pdf files by themselves are not enough. I need to submit this all on printed physical paper. This means I need to get together documentation and press for what I’ve done. I’m currently putting together a grant application.
