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Shrinking pages in ID

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 17, 2024
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Hi, Dear Friends!

I sometimes have pages in InDesign that run a little too far to the beginning of the next page. These pages are almost all text, fonts of different sizes, and paragraphs with borders and shading. Is there a way to tell the ID string everything on this page so the entire content fits on one page and will do it optimally to retain quality? I know there is a function in MS Word for this, but can it be done in ID?

Thank you, and have a good day!

Susan Flamingo

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Mike Witherell

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To me, the problem requires dropping back to planning spacing and apportionment. Then setting up paragraph styles to define size, leading, space before/after, .... It also requires dropping into an editorial frame of mind. Too many words takes up too much space, so editing down must be performed. It involves counting words and setting a rough threshold of words per page.

No, InDesign doesn't do this for you. What machine could exhibit such judgment? Only skilled human editors and page layout craftsman can do this elegantly and well.

Mike Witherell

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Mike Witherell

With a longer text re-writing might not be necessary - just playing with tracking and/or spacing - in (very) small steps - can also work.

And script can easily do it - within a set threshold.

What WORD is doing is rather "drastic"...

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Yes, Robert, that is a reasonable solution taken in small amounts.

I imagine myself turning from page to page within the many pages of that publication, and what might I see? A lack of harmony in the typesetting from page to page. It detracts from the design and presentation (IMHO) if done too much or too frequently.

Mike Witherell

Willi Adelberger

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Export as PDF and print from Adobe Acrobat. The compatibility is higher than from InDesign to all printers and this function to fit or scale pages is found in the Acrobat print dialogue.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Willi Adelberger

I'm pretty sure OP wants to fit specified piece of text on the same page - not resize exported PDF.

@Susan Flamingo

I'm affraid only manually - or with a dedicated script.

But we need more info.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

But this can be done in Acrobat without any script. If you want to print only a part select it and print selection or use the snapshot tool and print the snapshot. Why do things complicated when a PDF solution is easy and fast.

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