Resizing an InDesign layout

[iBabs2]

Hello,

I was wondering if there was an easy way to resize a layer in both a percent value or a given amount. For example. If I had a layout and wanted to resize it 25% of size, or, if I was asked to now produce the layout 3/4 of it's size..etc..

Is thee any easy way to figure this out?

thanks

barbara

[Kenneth C. Benson]

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

[BobLevine]

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

[iBabs2]

Hi Bob and Ken,

Thanks...I was actually playing with that adjust layout with minimum success for what I was trying to do, that is why I was looking for another way I might be missing. But, I guess that is what is available.

So, I will go back to doing what Bob suggested...make a new layout and resize all the elements at once 😉

thanks for the help!!!

I always check just to make sure I ma not missing something really good!!!

babs

[Al Ferrari]

Bob,

i am a, little surprized (probably from ignorance) at the new file suggestion. Do the styles transfer to the new file automatically, or does that require a separate trick or special effort?

Thanks,

Al

[Peter Spier]

Al,

What you are doing when you place the file into a new one is linking it like a graphic, so the page can be scaled as a whole, but you can't edit without going back to the original. It preserves the layout and scales all elements, including type, as if you zoomed the view in or out.

Peter

[BobLevine]

Perhaps I wasn't clear...I meant to create a new file and use the file>place command to PLACE the original document into the new one. Then just scale it down appropriately.

I certainly wouldn't advise using copy/paste. That will undoubtedly result in a complete mess.

Bob

[FivePicaPica]

Is this for a reprint of something?

I've sent several jobs to where they simply output the PDF at 96% (to take advantage of a smaller/cheaper trimsize) with no problems or noticable loss in quality.

[iBabs2]

Hi Bob,

Yes, that is what I thought you meant...That feature is awesome!!!! But yes, you have to have access to the original InDesign file.

It does work great if you have a few sizes of the same document, because if you have to make a change to something, all the other documents containing this placed one, will be updated (once you update the link that is)!

barb

[iBabs2]

Regarding the PDF output suggestion, can you tell me where you are changing that value from 100% to 96%...I have been looking to do something similar at 50%, but didn't see anywhere to resize the file when setting up the export.

thanks

babs…

[BobLevine]

You can't do it with export but in reality you shouldn't need to since Acrobat is quite capable of scaling the output when printing.

Bob

[Peter Spier]

You don't do it during export. You use the same PDF, but simply set a scale factor in Acrobat when you print (like the fit to page option).

[iBabs2]

Hi Guys,

Bummer.....I was hoping I could do if from InDesign...... the  reason is that I had a really large Catalog that I wanted to have people view and it needed to go through email. Since it was a really an oversized book, the PDF to be viewed  didn't have to be so large. I was trying to avoid having to res down all the images first, since the PDF was taking forever to create. I figured if I could  export it at 50% of size, then use the the PDF optimizer to work on file size overall, it would be a more efficient way to work.

That is why, again., I wanted to amke sure I wasn't missing a scale opportunity in making of the PDF!!!

thanks so much for clarifying that 😉

barbara

[Al Ferrari]

Peter & Bob,

I completely missed "place" in Bob's post, perhaps because he said layout instead of file. Anyway, my bad. Sorry to make you work harder. I already knew about the placing ID file into other ID files feature since CS3. I didn't mean I am completely ignorant.

Thanks,

Al

[downbeatjess]

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.

[lindseya57354306]

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!

[iBabs2]

Hi..thank you for popping in on this old thread. I will also try your idea