InDesign won't resize a document

Question

I'm redoing a book from several years ago to a new format the publisher wants to use. We'll go from 36 x 46.5 picas to 129mm x 198mm. I don't want anything to rescale--only the page size/interior margins to change. It's understood that there will be some text reflow--the text measure will go from 26 picas to 23.

I've tried both the Document Setup and Adjust Layout routines, and they don't work. As in, the document pages remain exactly the same size as they were before, though the interior margins do change.

Steven Hiatt · Accepted Answer

To re-re-clarify... &#128578; It may be that the pages in the document were resized at some point using the Page tool method, which is now blocking changes using the more global methods. This is not otherwise any kind of common occurrence, at all. Resizing a document can be a headache in a number of ways, but completely failing to respond to page size changes is an individual fault of some kind, not a general app fault. Try the 'purge' fix: save the document in IDML form, then reopen that and save as a new INDD file. See if that fixes the problem.I don't think the pages were ever resized using Page tool--I created them originally, which is why the job has come back to me: I have the original files. But I'll try your IDML fix--that sounds like the best avenue to take. Thanks!

Willi Adelberger · Answer

If the sizes were changed with the page tool changes in the document set upare ignored.

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