[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[ale rimoldi]

hi

> a.l.e had given the most specific idea on how to try within Scribus:
> 
> I had to read between the lines and had to learn that he meant to
> "select all (over all layers)" and to "resize" by a bold-mouse move:
> 
> I tried, and basically my document became a mess. A few elements got
> bigger and moved to their places. But anything text was no joy. And
> snapping to my (print-shop prescribed) bleed-limits did either not
> work or my mouse-skills for A0 page-size are just not snappy enough.
> I think my mouse tried snapping to the page-edges rather to the
> bleed-edges but since my screen is somewhat smaller than A0, I am not
> sure what happened.

as somebody else wrote: it was a likely outcome.

but, theoretically, this is the scribus way of doing what you wanted to
do.
(and in some cases it works ok... after you have adjusted the text
frame heights)

> I got more mails with ideas or even questions ("have you tried...")
> and I conclude that Scribus has no inbuilt tools to publish several
> sized-versions from one master document. Are we really the only users
> needing that?

no, everybody wants that!

but in most cases:

- you can just tell the print shop to print it at the desired size or
- you can scale a vector version of your original pdf
- you can use a tool that is dedicated to the editing of pdfs (and have
  the money for it) or
- you know somebody who understands
  https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam 
- and most of the time the manager will want to simply scale up or down
  the pdf, while the designer will try to convince her that you don't
  create the same design on A4 or A0.

when you don't have the money, don't have the hacker skills, don't have
the time, don't trust your printer, and don't want the designer to redo
her work... you might be out of luck...

ciao
a.l.e