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Scaling PDF Width while Retaining Height

Last post 02-09-2010 5:07 AM by Sarbjit Singh. 1 replies.
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  • 02-08-2010 8:35 AM

    Scaling PDF Width while Retaining Height

    I have a project coming up where our Management has requested we take a 9" x 10.875 trim size and reduce it to our normal 8.375" x 10.875" trim size to save money. This affects numerous books, most of which were done in InDesign. InDesign allows you to scale the PDF width and height separately so I was able to maintain 100% height and reduce width to 93% to get my desired trim size, maintaining correct placement of crop marks and bleeds. I cannot find this option in Quark, which seems to only be able to scale overall.

     Of note: because of bleeds and specific printer specs, I can't make this adjustments in Acrobat. Also, changing the page layout won't work as the material on the page takes up the entire 9" of width. We used Quark 6 on these projects, but do have one copy of Quark 8 on a temp machine.

    Any help?

  • 02-09-2010 5:07 AM In reply to

    Re: Scaling PDF Width while Retaining Height

    I think Scale XT can help you.

    NOTE: Please create a copy of your document

    Go to Windows -> Scale. Set Width to 93% and Height to 100%. Hit Scale.

    You will have a document that has been scaled to the desired size and will ouput like that.

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