Scaling a layout

[Z-GrimV]

Hi Folks,

I'm curious if anyone can help me figure out how to scale a document for print.  I have a 6x9 book, for example, at 300+ pages.  I want to print this exact layout at a small trim size.  Is there a way to proportionally reduce the size of a document to produce files for the printer?  I don't want to layout the same content multiple times if I can help it.

If it's as simple as the printer proportionally reducing the print size on their end, cool, but generally I expect the printer wants the final files at print size.

Thanks and regards,
Mark

[Randy Hagan]

There are a bunch of ways to scale your original layout.

• If you designed it to be scaled with liquid layout features, you can adjust sizes of pages, images and text independently to juggle each to create the best result. You can learn more about that through this link. But that works best with a lot of attention when generating the document. If you've already created it, you may not want to introduce this level of complexity.

• If you're giving a PDF of your job to the printer, you can scale the page by "printing" with the Adobe PDF print driver and scaling the size of the output, as shown below:

• Or, you can have your printer reproduce the PDF to scale when they output the PDF file from here:

Whichever option works best for you and your printer.

Hope this helps,

Randy

[Willi Adelberger]

Talk to the printer he might be able to scale each page slightly to get the final size he needs.

Otherwise you can scale in Acrobat Pro pages with the preflight commands.

If that does not help, place the INDD file in another INDD file. Make on the master an image frame in the size you need to scale it and in the Object style set to fit to frame / fill frame proportionally. Export that INDD for the printer.

[Eugene Tyson]

Printers will do it - talk to them.

It's easy enough.