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Quickly making A4 document A5 document.

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June 14, 2016
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Hi

I have an urgent job to do, but no time to do it.

It involves taking an A4 document of several hundred pages, and producing an A5 version using exactly the same proportions.

Could someone please tell me a quick way to do this, that doesn't involve going through the entire thing resizing everything?

Please help

Thanks

Andy

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Export as PDF

In Acrobat Pro go to Print-Production > Preflight.

There is a scale command, which will resize a PDF to a given size. There is one prepaired to scale to A4, you can make changes to scale to A5.

Geоrge

Legend

>> using exactly the same proportions.

Actually you can do nothing. Just print PDF and send to typography with comment about auto-scale to A5. In 99.9999% they know how to do this.

Not same - Listen @thepatje if your author will find that need to do upper-size of types and do re-makeup.

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner

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Muck959Author

Participant

Thanks everyone. Greatly appreciated

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intelligent_neighborsFA21

Inspiring

Have you try liquid layout? Well, this is a solution without any investment. Grab the page tool > option bar setting to Scale > modify your paper size tot A5. All set and everything stays editable.

Plan B: maintain everything in A4 till very last: print to PDF with a certain scale factor. Could a solution.

TᴀW

Legend

If you want the InDesign document to remain editable, just A5 instead of A4, you could use our (paid) http://www.id-extras.com/products/quickresize

Ariel

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Peter Spier

Community Expert

Ariel,

Have you ever seen cases of text reflow using your tool? I ask because a number of years ago I ran into a problem with scaling text down where the line endings changed. It turned out that we were reducing the size of the text below the limits for kerning in that font and the spacing was changing. Admittedly, this was a pretty extreme change but could happen with smaller changes in smaller type.

The same problem could affect pages placed from .indd files using Scott Zanelli's script. It does not seem to be a problem placing PDF pages.

TᴀW

Legend

Hi Peter,

I have noticed in some cases that line breaks change slightly. This is quite rare in most cases, but it does happen.

Usually, the effect is minor, and of course the advantage with QuickResize is that you get a fully editable InDesign document, resized.

Ariel

Visit www.id-extras.com for powerful InDesign scripts that save hours of work — automation, batch tools, and workflow boosters for serious designers.

vladan saveljic

Inspiring

Make your final A4 pdf.

Make new indesign A5 document and import your A4 pdf file with Multipageimporter (free download) setting "Scale of imported pages" 50%

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Muck959Author

Participant

Thanks, that sounds good. Do you happen to know where I might get this Multipageimporter?

Thanks

Andy

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Henri_dhd

Inspiring

It is in your scripts of Indesign, but there is a more a downloadable script for more options, I run it in CC and it is working

http://indesignsecrets.com/zanelli-releases-multipageimporter-for-importing-both-pdf-and-indd-files.php

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