Convert pdf page spreads to single page

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    How to split a PDF with spread pages to single pages? Community Beginner ,

    /t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-split-a-pdf-with-spread-pages-to-single-pages/td-p/3142122 Dec 10, 2010 Dec 10, 2010

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    Hi

    We just recieved a small booklet from a customer wich containted spread pages (sorry if it's the wrong term, I mean that to and to pages like 2 and 3 were merged to one page in the PDF). Our printer doesn't accept spread pages so what we had to do were to make a 40 page document in InDesign with facing pages, then place the pages from the top left corner of the even pages so it "stretched" across to the next pages. Then we could just export it ourselves and get the pages as single pages.

    My question is: is there a way to make this quick and easy in Acrobat (or InDesign if not possible in Acrobat)? Either with a clever solution or maybe a script.

    We were lucky considering the booklet only contained 40 pages, but what if someone sent us a file with 400 pages, it would take quite a lot of time. I read somewhere that you could duplicate every page and then crop by hand, but that wouldn't be either precise nor time effective.

    

    Thanks in advance for any help