[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[Owen]

Hi Martin,


Have you tried exporting your original as an svg and then re-import into your larger canvas.

Also you should be able to import the pdf and scale it up as well.

Any images will probably have a reduced dpi.




Owen

> 
> 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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