[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[ZASKE Martin]

Hello, we love Scribus and are using it for several years for all of our
print productions and even when creating mini-art for distribution via
messengers.


Now I got stuck again with our work-flow:


We made a calendar poster in size A3 and had 2500 copies digitally
printed on card-stock. Fine.


Now I want to print a few copies of this calendar in size A0 on such
huge plastic-sheets for outdoor advertising and for reading with groups
of people. (No worries, our photos are good enough to be enlarged this
far, because we have allowed for that.)



The digital print-shop for those plastic sheets is in Africa and I am
now on another continent for a few more months. I have used this
print-shop a few times and we like their output. But I have reason not
to trust their internal communications.

So in short, I could just order with a copy of our A3 PDF/X4 files and
request "please enlarge to A0" but this request will either be lost
between sales and production or they might use a sheet of A0 material
and print our A3 calendar in one corner or whatever.

What I need is an efficient way inside Scribus to prepare a document (a
master) and then create different PDF/X4 exports for different purposes
(like main-product in A3 poster-size, mini-copies for example A5 for
publicity-flyers, huge-copies for example A0 for outdoor-advertising).

When I have sent full-size A0 PDF/X4 to this print-shop in the past,
then I always got what I needed; I believe this is what they requested
some years ago when I went myself to place our first order.




I do not even know whether the best solution is to create several
different-size "master" documents in Scribus or whether I can find tools
to use the main PDF export in A3 and create upscaled and downscaled copies.

I have asked a similar question a few days ago on
graphicdesign.stackexchange.com but have not received any answers at
all. So if you want to earn points, feel free to answer there too.


Thank you,

Martin



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