Formatting current document- x2 A4 sheets into 1 A3 sheet

Hey guys so i completed a document for a university design project where i need to create like an a4 flip book made by an a3 sheet if that makes any sense, so its just a single a3 sheet that i will print double sided (ends up being 4 A4 pages). Now they provided the template for us to complete the work on, and i did, and as i saved it as a PDF i realised the template was actually 4 A4 sheets!!! Even though the project has to be 2 A3 sheets printed doubble sided (which ends up being a single A3 sheet when printed)
Im using adobe indesign cs6 and i wanted to know how to format my current document into A3 sheets, so for example in the screenshot i have shown you see the bottom two pages you see for example the 2 a4 pages next to one another which looks like an A3 sheet, which has the word "corrupt" on one page and letters againgst the black background on the page next to it, how can i combine these two a4 pages to a single a3 sheet to be kept in the same format?,
note i want to combine both sets of a4 pages so i can print it as a doubble sided booklet!
Thanks everyone

The "correct" way to do a project like this is to set up as facing A4 pages, and to lay out in consecutive page order as a reader would see the pages (reader's spreads), with a single pages for first and last pages. When it is time to print you can either use an impostion script, or File > Print Booklet... to "impose" the document into the printer's spreads for output onto A5.
From Print Booklet you can either print direct to a duplexing printer, or on PC you can print to PDF. For mac you would need to print to Postscript file and distill manually, which is a pain.
A third option is to simply export to PDF in single pages, then use Acrobat's booklet function to print.

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While editing a scanned pdf, Acrobat will not recognize the current font & change to very different font. How can I choose the font I want to match the current document?
created by sukritd15 in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs - View the full discussionHi Deborah , I would like to know couple of things before I assist you further.1.Which version of Acrobat are you using ?2.Is it happening for all the scanned PDF' or any particular PDF? You can try these steps,Launch the scanned PDF >right click >Document Properties(from the drop down list) >Fonts(on the dialog box)>From here you will get the fonts used in that PDF . While editing the PDF ,select the text that are editing or typing in with the help of selection tool .After you select the text ,right click on the text and choose "edit text" from the drop down list .From there you will be able to choose the desired font . RegardsSukrit Dhingra If the reply above answers your question, please take a moment to mark this answer as correct by visiting: https://forums.adobe.com/message/7190881#7190881 and clicking ‘Correct’ below the answer Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page: Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed an image in your message please visit the thread in the forum and click the camera icon: https://forums.adobe.com/message/7190881#7190881 To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at , click "Following" at the top right, & "Stop Following" Start a new discussion in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs by email or at Adobe Community For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1516624.

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