The pdfpages LaTeX package is a free solution (if you have a LaTeX installation somewhere), pdfnup which wraps around LaTeX and pdfpages provides a user-friendly commandline tool to do the job (allows for scaling, n-up printing, ...)
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--Marc
On 15.02.2008 at 05:16h, mf wrote (with possible deletions):
Thanks...! I already have a paper copy of the document, which is a 33 page statute. I need it on the computer to be able to search electronically and to copy passages into other documents. The formatting is highly complex, with many layers of nested indents. Pasting into a text file would undo the formatting - too laborious to recreate. Don't have Photoshop. I have tried several times to print the pdf to pdf, in the hope of being able to scale it up. It always comes out same size as the original. I haven't found a scaling-up option in the "Print" > "Save as PDF" function. If you can point me to it, I'd be grateful.... On 15 Feb 2008, at 03:12, The Org Dork wrote:On 2/14/08 6:44 PM, "mf" wrote:I have one constantly used pdf with extremely small type which I needto have at about 200% magnification to read properly. But for all other pdfs, this is vastly too much and I use 130% magnification as the default Skim setting. I try and keep the small print file open as much as possible, to avoid having to constantly reopen it and reset the magnification. But I keep closing it without thinking and then have to fiddle about changing the magnification again when I reopen it. Can anyone think of a better way of handling this?1. Print it. If you need it "constantly", then pin it to your wall. 2. Use Skim to select the document's text and save that as a text file, at any type size you wish. 3. OCR the document and save it with a more readable font size. 4. Use PhotoShop to enlarge the document, print again as PDF or as an image. 5. Print the document to PDF using a scaling factor. Use the new one. 6. etc. Trying to "jimmy" some software settings seems really overboard here. If the type's too small, and you use the document frequently (or, "constantly", as you say) then change the document -- not Skim settings. -- G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
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