Scale documents, Scale a document manually, Scale a document automatically – Adobe InDesign CC 2015 User Manual
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Printing
Last updated 6/6/2015
The size and shape of the area InDesign prints is determined by the current paper size and orientation.
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Choose File > Print, and then click Setup on the left.
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In the Setup area, select Tile, and then choose Manual in the Tile menu.
Scale documents
To fit an oversized document on a smaller piece of paper, you can scale the document’s width and height, either
symmetrically or asymmetrically. Asymmetric scaling is useful when, for example, you’re printing film for use on a
flexographic press: If you know in which direction the plate will be mounted on the press drum, scaling can compensate
for the 2% to 3% stretching of the plate that usually occurs. Scaling does not affect the size of the pages in the document.
Note: When you print spreads, each spread is scaled separately.
Scale a document manually
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Choose File > Print.
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In the Setup area of the Print dialog box, select Width to activate the Width and Height boxes.
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To maintain current document width to height proportions, select Constrain Proportions. Otherwise, make sure
that this option is unselected.
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Type percentages from 1 to 1000 in the Width and Height boxes. If you selected Constrain Proportions, you need to
enter only one value; the other is updated automatically.
Scale a document automatically
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In the Setup area of the Print dialog box, make sure that the Tile and Thumbnail options are unselected. (When these
options are selected, the Scale To Fit option is unavailable.)
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Select Scale To Fit. The scaling percentage, which is determined by the imageable area defined by the selected PPD,
appears next to the Scale To Fit option.
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About PDF print publishing tools
In some print publishing workflows, documents are distributed in the format of the authoring application (called the
native format). Once approved, the files are saved in PostScript or a proprietary format for prepress work and final
printing. Because applications generate PostScript in many different ways, PostScript files can be arbitrarily large and
complex. In addition, reliability problems such as missing fonts, corrupt files, missing graphic elements, and
unsupported features can result at output time. In response, Adobe and its partners continue to create reliable, PDF-
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