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Adjust Page sizes

It is often necessary to resize pages to fit a printing requirement, whether they are to be imposed or not. The Adjust Page Sizes feature offers three choices:

You have the option of rotating when needed. If you choose this option, then pages are checked before changing their size to see if they would be closer in shape if they were rotated by 90 degrees. If so, they are rotated. You choose whether this is to be clockwise or counter clockwise. This option can often greatly reduce or eliminate distortion, where it is acceptable to rotate pages before printing.

In 3.0 you could only choose a target size. You can now choose a fixed percentage scale. For example, choose 200% to double width and height. Many other options are not applicable if you choose a percentage.

Advanced options

If you select "Show advanced options" you will have more choices.

Set page size the same (4.0)

Sometimes you may want to set all the pages of a document the same size, without knowing the size in advance, so the layout is consistent. This an option when Show advanced options is selected. You would typically choose Same as page: 1.

You can also verify that all the pages are the same size by choosing Action: Verify: report if any pages wrong size. Instead of changing sizes, it will check the sizes are the same as the page you choose. If all the pages are the same size, it will say nothing.

Adjust only similar size (4.0)

The option Adjust only similar sizes, available in advanced actions, allows you to adjust the size of pages which are close to your required size, but leave others alone. This may be useful if faced with an ad hoc mixture of pages, some of which need to be left a special size, but most of which may have random variations because of different authors or software.

You choose how close the page sizes need to be before they are adjusted.

Bleed and Adjust Page Sizes

When you select from the advanced options, you can choose how bleed areas are handled in the case of anamorphic scaling. (In all other cases it will be removed with a warning). If you choose the option to preserve bleed margins, the following changes apply to the normal process:


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