[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[William Bader]

If it is just a single page, you could also save to postscript and then
edit the postscript to add a 'scale' command and update the bounding box,
and then use ghostscript ps2pdf to convert it to a PDF. It should keep the
file small and the typography smooth. The issue with that (or with scaling
other formats) is that if the document has images, you have to be careful
that the images in the PDF have not been reduced to a resolution
appropriate for the original smaller page size, because then they might
look pixelated when the page size is increased. I think that the Scribus
PDF export can control image resolution.
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes
Regards, William


On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:52 AM Owen <owen.cook at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
>
> Have you tried exporting your original as an svg and then re-import into
> your larger canvas.
>
> Also you should be able to import the pdf and scale it up as well.
>
> Any images will probably have a reduced dpi.
>
>
>
>
> Owen
>
> >
> > We made a calendar poster in size A3 and had 2500 copies digitally
> > printed on card-stock. Fine.
> >
> >
> > Now I want to print a few copies of this calendar in size A0 on such
> > huge plastic-sheets for outdoor advertising and for reading with groups
> > of people. (No worries, our photos are good enough to be enlarged this
> > far, because we have allowed for that.)
> >
> >
> >
> > The digital print-shop for those plastic sheets is in Africa and I am
> > now on another continent for a few more months. I have used this
> > print-shop a few times and we like their output. But I have reason not
> > to trust their internal communications.
> >
> > So in short, I could just order with a copy of our A3 PDF/X4 files and
> > request "please enlarge to A0" but this request will either be lost
> > between sales and production or they might use a sheet of A0 material
> > and print our A3 calendar in one corner or whatever.
> >
> > What I need is an efficient way inside Scribus to prepare a document (a
> > master) and then create different PDF/X4 exports for different purposes
> > (like main-product in A3 poster-size, mini-copies for example A5 for
> > publicity-flyers, huge-copies for example A0 for outdoor-advertising).
> >
> > When I have sent full-size A0 PDF/X4 to this print-shop in the past,
> > then I always got what I needed; I believe this is what they requested
> > some years ago when I went myself to place our first order.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I do not even know whether the best solution is to create several
> > different-size "master" documents in Scribus or whether I can find tools
> > to use the main PDF export in A3 and create upscaled and downscaled
> copies.
> >
> > I have asked a similar question a few days ago on
> > graphicdesign.stackexchange.com but have not received any answers at
> > all. So if you want to earn points, feel free to answer there too.
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
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