Resizing an InDesign layout

Hi all!

This is a very old thread but I seem to have been battling the same thing and wanted to post my solution in case anyone else comes across this. I am very grateful for downbeatjess's last post - liquid layout and scale solved my problem.

I have a 60 page product catalog that I wanted to use in a different format; namely remove pricing and scale from 8.5 x 11 to 4.25 x 5.5.  I really did not want to have to re-layout 1000 products. The "place" function didn't seem to be working, maybe it would for a single page document. 

So I created an alternate layout with a new master page sized 4.25 x 5.5.  Before moving the pages from my original document to the alternate layout, I used Jess's advice to make sure the page was set to liquid. In my version of ID, I went to the Layout tab, selected Pages then liquid layout. Once all the pages were in "liquid" mode, I set them to "scale." I then created an alternate layout selecting all of the pages from my document and applied the new scaled down page size master.

Voila! All of the meat of my book scaled perfectly and now I can play with the actual text. Good luck!

This is a very old thread but I'll post for anyone who still wants to know. I wanted to do a simple resize of my postcard document, from 5.5x8.5 to 5x7 and wanted a quick and easy way to do it. This worked great and is a good tip to know:

1. Once your InDesign document is open, go to the Page tool in the menu bar (3rd tool from top in InDesign CC)

2. Once Page tool is selected go to Liquid Page Rule dropdown menu at top of window and select Scale

3. Then just to the left there is another dropdown menu with sizes to choose from. Or select Custom to make your own size. This will rescale the page of your document that is selected.

4. Make sure to do this to every page in your document if you want same sizing throughout.

5. Go to File> Document Setup> and change the size of your document to the size you just scaled to and you are good to go.

You can give the layout adjustment a try but you may be better off placing your layout into a new file and scaling everything there.

Bob

Check out Layout > Layout Adjustment. As you resize your document size, margins (and frames that touch them) will move/resize.

I don't see a way to resize a page by a percentage, but you usually don't want to work that way anyway. Most documents are produced in specific paper sizes: letter, half-letter, 6x9, 7x10, etc. If you produced a letter-size document and your boss thinks it's too big, you're going to choose the next size down that's convenient to print.

Ken Benson