Re: [libreoffice-users] scale a Writer document to print on one page

Hi :)
Is that 22 inches by 17 inches??!!??  That is a huge document!  Is it huge
and trying to print to hundreds of pages or does it just "go over" a little
bit and try to print to 4 or less pages?  Print Preview is handy for
figuring that out.  If it is just a little bit over then simply choosing a
different page-size might do the trick.  From the menus;
Format - Page - Page (it's about the 2nd tab in the pop-up)
then the drop-down menu at the very top should say something like
US Letter  or
A4
It is probably on "US Letter" and just needs to be changed to "A4".  For
some reason computers set-up throughout the rest of the world (well, at
least quite a few places but NOT  everywhere) are all set to the "US
Letter" despite that size paper only being available in the US (and maybe
Canada but not many other places).  The entire rest of the world (ok, again
probably not absolutely everywhere) have agreed to standardise on A4 and
metric systems.

A4 is roughly 12" by   8"   (more precisely it's 11.69" by 8.27") = or in
metric systems that is 29.7cm by 21cm
A3 is roughly 18" by 12"
and LibreOffice doesn't easily let me go to A2 or larger unless i could
create my own customised size that large.

Recently i had to shrink an A4 down to A5 and stumbled around a bit.
Eventually copying it all into Draw and then selecting everything on the
page allowed me to grab the green corner and resize everything.  Using the
Shift key when resizing makes the aspect-ratio stay the same so the text
and images don't get warped.

This worked really well with all the various images in my poster but i
think i had done something wrong with my text-frames in Writer as i then
had to select each line of text, right-click and choose "Size and position"
(or something) and then untick the 2 boxes that force the text to stay the
same absolute size and then tick the box that let them change size
according to the size of the frame they were in.  Luckily i only had 27
lines to do so it was fairly quick but i've been meaning to write in to
find out what i had done wrong, or rather to find out how to do the right
thing in the first place to make text-frames resize properly.

Regards form
Tom :)




On 24 July 2014 09:29, Vitorio Delage <v.delage@academie-medecine.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Also you may have a scale option in your printer driver. But this is
> vendor dependent. We have this option in Canon drivers for iRC5045, but not
> for Xerox WorkCenter 5330 (our photocopiers/printers).
>
> The PDF option is 2 steps but universal, as Preview.app will then be able
> to scale down your document without problems.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vitorio Delage
>
> Académie nationale de médecine
> Gestion du parc informatique
>
> Le 24 juil. 2014 à 03:10, Steve Edmonds <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com> a
> écrit :
>
> > Hi.
> > May not be the most elegant way, but use the PDF button to create a PDF
> and print that to one page.
> > Steve
> >
> > On 2014-07-24 12:55, Truett Bobo wrote:
> > > I have a Writer document 22” by 17” (landscape) that I would like to
> print on one page.  How can I scale it to accomplish this?
> > > I am using the latest versions of Mac OS and LibreOffice.
> > >
> > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
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