Removing huge margins and making pdf 2 pages per sheet

Hi.
I have a fairly long PDF file that has huge margins - the margins are so big that if I were able to crop them out and then put the remaining text area on a landscape page, I could fit 2 of them side by side. (I prefer fitting 2 pages side by side, rather than enlarging the text area to fill a whole page, because that would make my document shorter and would maintain the resolution). That is exactly what I am trying to accomplish.
I was easily able to crop out the margins on all of the pages using the Acrobat cropping tool. Then, I tried to print the document using Adobe PDF printer with the 2 pages per side setting. But, when I do this, it seems to treat the page as though its still 8.5x11 and displays the text side by side as thought it is still on two 8.5x11 pages, even though now the page is smaller. After cropping, the text area left is roughly 4x8, so I should be able to fit two of these areas onto one page side by side.... the question is, how do I do this?
Thanks

1. I like a product called Quite Imposing that can do what you want and more.
2. When you cropped the pdf file, you could try to use the Redaction tool on some white space and then apply the redaction.You will be giving an option to remove hidden information. This will remove everything you cropped out. Now try to do what you wanted as you did it the first time.

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