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Title: Resizing when printing
Post by: Alan Aldred on September 12, 2025, 07:29:32 PM
Hi Everyone, I'm quite new to Scribus. Can I resize a page for printing in terms of percentage. In other words can I print an A3 document on A4 paper. Or as In my problem, so I could use an existing house plan which is too big for A3, I made the page size 50% bigger than A3. I now want to print it out on A3. Hope you understand me.
Title: Re: Resizing when printing
Post by: utnik on September 13, 2025, 07:07:44 AM
hi alan

i wouldn't resize it with scribus. (too complicated for this task...)
either you can do the resizing while printing or you use a .pdf-manipulator (even the old jpdftweak (https://jpdftweak.sourceforge.io/) can do this) if you really need a .pdf file in the new size (in your case a3...)

utnik
Title: Re: Resizing when printing
Post by: Alan Aldred on September 13, 2025, 02:00:46 PM
Thanks very much
Title: Re: Resizing when printing
Post by: Alan Aldred on September 13, 2025, 03:02:46 PM
Sorry, you said I can resize it when printing but where do you adjust the size in the print window. I can't find anywhere.
Title: Re: Resizing when printing
Post by: a.l.e on September 13, 2025, 04:50:11 PM
When printing the PDF with a PDF viewer...
Title: Re: Resizing when printing
Post by: Nermander on September 14, 2025, 12:49:12 PM
A good rule is to never print from Scribus (becuase Scribus printing is known to not always work optimally), but export to PDF and print the PDF. Most PDF viewers will have scaling options (like "fit to paper size" or percentage scaling).

And the PDF then also works as a proof, it is very rare that a PDF does not print the same way it shows on screen.