Splitting an A3 page into 2 A4s

Hi!
I'm a journalist and after publication of the magazine, my editor sends me my articles in pdf format to use in my portfolio.
The problem is, when the article is longer than one page, they send me the pdfs with 2 pages as one - an A3 instead of two A4s, if you'd like. I've been looking through every menu in Acrobat trying to figure out how to simply split the page in the middle and make two pages out of it, but I can't figure it out.
I guess I could go through several stages of cropping, creating new documents, merging them... etc - but I'm sure there's a faster way!
Any help would be most appreciated!
Many thanks
PS: if you need to see what I mean, check out my portfolio on issuu - the first couple of pages are A4s, then suddenly I get A3s : http://issuu.com/princesskarlotta/docs/art_film
Message was edited by: missphotographer

Acrobat can do it, but it's not a feature with a simple user interface - you have to write a reasonably-complicated JavaScript, and of course many of the people who write those scripts do it for a job, hence need to charge for their products. If you spend enough time reading up about Acrobat scripting you could write a script yourself for "free", but the time it'd take is probably worth more to you.
If all you want to do is view or print the resulting PDF, just re-fry it (print from Acrobat to the Adobe PDF printer, choose the "tile all pages" page scaling, and pick A4 portrait as the paper size so your A3 page splits across two sheets). The file you'll create will lose any accessibility tags, layers, video, comments etc. but it won't cost you anything to do.
If you have Adobe Illustrator you could open the PDF and re-export it from there, splitting the page using Artboards. Again it will lose all your interactive features, comments, tag structure etc but would preserve layers, unlike a re-fry.

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