Printing PDF files to scale

[Anonymous]

Having trouble printing A1 size PDFs to scale on a printer whose max page size is A3. Need to reduce the scale of the A1 PDF to 50% so it prints true to scale on A3, but Adobe reader and the printer driver do not seem to allow this.

Because the PDF is created at A1 it is a virtual piece of paper at A1 and if it is shrunk to fit the paper size it scales to 48% or 49% depending on the printer. This is to suit the printers minimum page margins.

No problem in printing an A3 PDF to A3, that works fine, or A1 to A1. Just scaling an A1 to A3 that does not seem to want to work.

Ian C

[Anonymous]

I've been trying to work out this issue as well. In my case I want to print pdf 24x36 sheets on 12x18 or 11x17 at 50%.

As mentioned above, acrobat doesn't allow the option to set a specific percentage, but I found that if I go to my printer properties (to the right of the printer name on the top) I can set 50% in one of the tabs there.

Maybe that will help, depending on what printer you have.

[Anonymous]

Have changed over to Foxit for printing PDFs. Works much better, they can be scaled properly.

Ian C