Downsize A4 to A5 document on Open Office

were

chunter wrote: »

fonts? word document?
must be a pdf - otherwise you are simply hoping the printer has that font on their computer.

Many packages like word and libra office allow you to embed the fonts into the document to overcome printer font reliance

Shrimply

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

johndough was closest a5 is half of the size of a4, but it needs to be resized in landscape first then changed to a5 portrait .

Emm not really, A4 is scalable to A5 (roughly 70%). Which is way any decent printer provided with an A4 pdf wouldn't have any issue printing it as A5.

Lots of strange advice in this thread for something that is really rather simple. Taking screenshots and using paint is never going to give a great result.

were

Shrimpy, getting a screenshot and expanding is a bad idea, but screen resolution is often quite good and when you shrink it down becomes even better. While granted not the best method, it is far easier and quicker than setting the paper size to A5 and the font to smaller then redoing the whole layout just for flyers.

I like Robin9 answer, easiest and the majority of printers and copiers can already do this

HarryLong

I may be missing the point here and if so I apologise. I cannot see how using the printer will help. I want to send the document in pdf form to the outside printers in A5 size. I tried using Bullzip as suggestedin Post 7, but that only seems to downside and print not retain retaining the downsized document to send to the printers

Shrimply

were wrote: »

While granted not the best method, it is far easier and quicker than setting the paper size to A5 and the font to smaller then redoing the whole layout just for flyers.

This is what confuses me though, maybe I misunderstood the question, my understanding is the OP has designed a poster in A4 that he wants printed in A5.

His mention of fonts is only because if you simply change that page size in Open Office it doesn't scale the font or images. But all he needs to to is take the design he has and completely scale it down, which is easy, especially as a pdf.

Have I missed the point somewhere?

Shrimply

HarryLong, if my understanding is correct, if you would like to PM me the document (ideally as an A4 pdf) I will happily rescale it for you. But obviously this won't help you in the future and maybe I misunderstand what you want to achieve.

Shrimply

Still happy for you to email me the document later but I thought a more helpful answer might be of use here.

I may have led you slightly astray and I can only apologise. Having installed Open Office I can't find a way to directly scale the page during printing.

What the pdf printer does in emulate a printer, such that your computer thinks it's sending the file to a printer but effectively saves it as a pdf, which makes it handy for this sort of thing.

So to make this work I would,

1) Export the Open Office document as a A4 pdf ( using the export pdf options)

2) Install the Bullzip PDF printer

3) Open the A4 PDF in Adobe reader

4) File>Print

In the drop down menu choose bullzip pdf printer

Beside this click Properties, in this window click the "Paper/Quality tab and click the "Advanced" button at the bottom. In the Paper Size drop down option choose A5. Click OK twice to close these windows and go back the the Adobe print options.

Under paper size and handling check "Shrink oversized pages".

And click print.

After a short while you will get a bullzip window pop up, all you have to change is the location and name of the file you are creating and click "Save"

The saved file is a scaled A5 document

I know this sounds complicated but after doing it once you will see it really isn't and is mostly pretty intuitive.

were

c'mon guys. Also just downloaded open office, and like Libre office has a PDF converter



Once you have a PDF (call it pdf1) you need Adobe acrobat PDF reader software. There was a feature on Adobes software to print PDF1, and reduce it.

Two ways: Booklet which is A5 format. This will shrink your page onto an A4 and could give you 2 a5 on an a4, OR from the bottom select Paper Size as A5. The PDF printer will then capture this as an A5 layout and ask you to create pdf2 when you press print. Follow Shrimply above on PDF printing.

In Acrobat, from File, Print... I am sure this below will not be confusing


Shrimply, I can see the confusion. In my post I was taking about capturing the page as a graphic and scaling it down, because his page is already perfect, but the wrong size - my take on the inital post. Plonk down an a4 graphic and resize it in OpenOffice onto an a5 page and you are finish, possibly easier than doing this .