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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I do not see the need of resizing a
document within Scribus</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">unless it needs further editing in the
resized format.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Two suggestions :</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">1) It is easy to resize a PDF using PDF
tools</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">(one of those being printing to a
virtual PDF printer)</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">2) Here is a tip to do printing in
different sizes with Scribus <br>
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<ol>
<li>export the pages of the original document as PDF (one file per
page, all of this can be optionally defined set up at export
time)<br>
</li>
<li>create a second document, blank, with the new size of the
pages et the same number of pages<br>
</li>
<li>create a frame of the size of the page on each page (create
one and copy paste)</li>
<li>place the PDFs created at the step 1 into the frames (the same
as placing images as links).</li>
<li>adjust image to page for each (this is where scaling takes
place).<br>
</li>
<li>export this new file to PDF (with the option embed PDF and EPS
selected) - done !<br>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">In case you have to make some
corrections, redo 1, reopen the second document and re-export to
PDF - done.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Actually, if both documents are open,
you do not even have to reopen the second document after
modifications.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The document will automatically reflect
the changes...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am often using this procedure to
print name cards on a A4 sheet<br>
(prepare one at the size of a name card and place them as PDFs on
a A4 page</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">or to impose pages for a brochure...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">For example, in case of a flyer that
you want to have in A3, A4, and A5, plus one version on 2 A5 on a
A4 sheet.<br>
Prepare your main document on A4 (for example), with images with a
resolution good enough for further resizing.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Export it in PDF.<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Prepare the documents for the other
sizes and place the PDF on them.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Export to PDF (you can still choose the
quality of images and the maximum resolution for each kind)<br>
</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hope these tips can help.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It works perfectly for me (with Scribus
5.3, version 4 had the option, maybe less reliable, I do not
know).<br>
</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 18.11.19 à 18:25, ale rimoldi a
écrit :<br>
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cite="mid:20191118182548.05c06008@scharfeis.home">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">hi
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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.
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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)
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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?
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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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam">https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam</a>
- 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
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