Indesign - A4 magazine to A5?

[Jofish]

I made a magazine in A4, but I want to shrink it down to A5? How do I this whilst also scaling down images and text correctly?

[amaarora]

Hi,

i would recommend using alternate layout feature of Indesign. Do refer this article Liquid and alternate layouts in InDesign

-Aman

[TᴀW]

After you get frustrated with liquid layout not working, you can move on to our QuickResize, which is simpler and more reliable:

QuickResize – Id-Extras: InDesign Scripts, Tips & Solutions

However, if you don't need the actual InDesign file to be resized and editable and just need the final PDF to be resized, there are free ways of doing that... Depends on what you need.

Ariel

[Malcolm Whild]

Hi,

A4 will scale down to A5 pretty readily - it's 70.7% on the depth and 70.4% on the width. If you don't have many pages you could select all items on the page and scale them to 70.4% and nudge the height to suit, or you could just output at 70.4%.

Regards,

Malcolm

[wrensauer]

Hi Jofish,

Were you able to find success with any of the above suggestions? Let us know if you need further assistance.

Best,

Wren