Rescaling a PDF document's dimensions?

I'm wondering how complicated it would be to take an existing PDF (just a single page) and redefine its dimensions, thereby rescaling the dimensions of everything in it in one fell swoop? That is to say, if the original dimensions are 8.5 x 11 inches, and I wanted to redefine it as being twice that size (17 x 22"), how elaborate would that process be to do it without altering the layout visually?
If a tool for this operation exists, I'd like to find it. But I'd also like to understand how complex the operation would be, based on the internal structure of a PDF document.

Well, the essential principles would be
* Establish the current size using MediaBox and/or CropBox
* Set the new size, managing both
* Consider the effect on BleedBox, TrimBox and ArtBox
* Generate a new page stream with a suitable scaling transformation
matrix in cm, with a q; and another one with a Q
* If the page contents are an array, prefix one of these to the array
and suffix the other
* If the page contents are a stream, make them an array and proceed as
the previous step
* In all the above, consider the effects of a Rotate on the page (it
may just work, but I'm not sure).
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