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Page scaling

Feb 29, 2008 7:09 AM

Scale page by percent. Currently, in print set up page scaling amounts to reducing or enlarging to fit printer borders. When I have a scaled architectural drawing, I want to reduce it a fixed percentage so the printed drawing is also in scale, such as 50%, or 25%. This is now not possible and very annoying.
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  • Bill@VT
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    1. Bill@VT,
    Feb 29, 2008 3:48 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    Change the paper size to what you want and then scale the print. It works for me. You may have to do it from the PDF itself. I did that to reduce or enlarge a bunch of PDFs I had from folks who can't follow directions. In this case, I did not change the printer page size, only the size of the information on the page.
     
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    2. (John_Coventry),
    Feb 29, 2008 6:19 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    How do you change the paper size in the PDF document?
     
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  • Bill@VT
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    3. Bill@VT,
    Feb 29, 2008 6:38 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    You change it in the printer when you print. You might be able to scale it with PDF Optimizer, but I am not sure.
     
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    4. (cortney_roundy),
    Aug 20, 2008 3:26 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    I also would like to see page scaling by percentage. I work in architecture and frequently work with 30" x 42" documents and often want to print them half size so I set up a page at 15" x 21" but instead of being able to set it up to print at 50% I have to use scale to fit or a similar scaling option which always scales my documents to 49%. This is very annoying especially when I have to use a ruler to measure something off a printed page. I don't understand why we can't have it print exactly the way we want it to. Isn't that what PDF is all about anyway?
     
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    5. (Merlene_Tarlac),
    Aug 25, 2008 4:15 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    I would have thought a standard feature - into the future at least.
     
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    6. Bill@VT,
    Aug 25, 2008 7:32 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    On Acrobat 8, you can select Page Scaling and try Tile all pages. Then set the tile scale at 100% to create a scaled PDF. Then simply print the resultant PDF. That is at least one way around the problem. It was straight forward when I did it last fall in AA6. I can not find the scaling AA5. I do not have my AA7 system up to check, but I am sure there is a similar scaling feature there for printing to a new PDF. That may be simplest way to created a scaled version.
     
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    7. (Kamal_Gurung),
    Sep 11, 2008 8:12 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    How can I scale a scanned image with high resolution in Adobe Acrobat 8
     
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    8. Bill@VT,
    Sep 11, 2008 11:30 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    Acrobat is not a graphics imaging program. You can do limited scaling to a different resolution with PDF Optimize and such. For more extensive graphic work, you need to use something like PhotoShop.
     
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    9. (A_Thomas),
    Oct 13, 2008 6:32 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    if you look at this guys site he has some apps that will scale.

    http://www.noliturbare.com/index.php

    I had been looking for a app that will scale to 50% for blueprints. This seems like something that adobe would have include seeing how the have dimensioning tools for take offs and 1/2 size is something that people use all the time that deal with blueprints.
     
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    10. (Si_Buckmaster),
    Oct 29, 2008 7:36 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    "Acrobat is not a graphics imaging program. You can do limited scaling to a different resolution with PDF Optimize and such. For more extensive graphic work, you need to use something like PhotoShop."

    We're not talking about graphics manipulation here, we're talking about output at a user-defined scale. We work with vehicles and have lots of documents at 1/40 scale which we want to print at 1/20, but Acrobat is unable to accomplish this. We use Acrobat Pro to annotate our files so the only way to print them with this info is from Acrobat.

    We desperately need this feature, it seems ridiculous that it hasn't been there since version 1! Safari lets you set a scale when printing, does that make it a 'graphics imaging program'?
     
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    11. (josh_day),
    Jan 15, 2009 4:12 PM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    I would like to add to this topic. It seems that all new versions of Acrobat (8 and above) over-ride printer driver scaling options. For example, if I select 50% scale in my printer driver, acrobat will ignore that and use what ever setting is displayed. I used to be able to select "Scaling None" and change the scale percentage in the printer properties while using Acrobat 6, but that no longer applies. Adobe, please fix this or add a percentage scaling option.
     
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  • patriciht8
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    12. patriciht8,
    Oct 16, 2009 8:08 PM   in reply to Bill@VT
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    Thank you so much Bill for that information. I have just gotten acquainted with PDF and did not know much about page scaling at all. Thanks again! Just goes on to show how little I know about PDFs.

     
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    13. marthagfy75,
    Oct 29, 2009 2:21 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    Wow what a great forum, and thanks John and Bill for your helpful information. Like Dexter I too used to perform the page scaling in the traditional manner, and that was not only time consuming but downright monotonous. Your technique looks awesome! Thanks again!

     
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    14. mikeuks,
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    Apr 2, 2010 8:12 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    One solution on the Mac is in the Page Setup menu. ( File / Page Setup...)

     

    Set the Paper Size to the actual size of your paper, but change the Scale to whatever percent you choose. Then, from the print dialog box select Page Scaling : None. The image size should be reduced within the overall page size.

     
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  • Ben--HRT
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    15. Ben--HRT,
    Apr 24, 2010 11:22 AM   in reply to (John_Coventry)
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    To change the scale (by a percentage)in AA8 here is what you need to do:

     

    1. Go to Print Setup

    2. Change your printer to "Adobe PDF"

    3. Select your paper size (half of your original if scaling 50%)

    4. Properties>Layout>Advanced

    5. There is a scaling option, change to desired scale

    6. Ok>Ok>Ok

     

    Now you are going to print your PDF to a new PDF:

     

    1. Go to Print

    2. Change your printer to "Adobe PDF"

    3. Select your paper size (half of your original if scaling 50%)

    4. Make sure Auto-Rotate and Center is checked

    5. Uncheck "Choose Paper Source by PDF Page Size"

    6. Select Page Scaling: None

    7. Print > Save As a new PDF (The PDF Page Size is now scaled to what you want)

     

    Now open the new PDF and you should be able to print it to the scale you chose without any problems.

     

     

    -Ben

     
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