Enlarging a PDF

This may be a silly question, but if I save an AI file as an 8x10 can someone print it as a 16x20 while still maintaining the quality if I have created outlines?

You don't even need to create outlines from the type (I presume that's what you mean) if the fonts are embedded. Vector artwork scales without loss of quality.

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What % increase does a double tap enlarge a pdf on an iPhone4 screen?

I am trying to figure out how much the enlargement is. Has anyone seen documentation on how large a double tap will enlarge a pdf?

Are you saying you have no idea how large an enlargement? I would appreciate anyone knowing what is the average enlargement. There must be some standard enlargement they use in the programing otherwise why wouldn't it enlarge to fill the screen with one letter of the word?

Exporting CS5 file to PDF causes the document size to enlarge on PDF!

I need help... FAST! I have a 14-page 4CP calendar that bleeds on three sides. The bleed size is 3/16", per the printer's requirements. When I export the file from InDesign to PDF, the overall page size is increased by exactly 3/16"! I nearly missed this and approved the job for printing. Luckily, I turned on the rulers in the PDF file to double-check all the page elements were properly placed and wouldn't fall on the fold. That's when I discovered that objects that I had placed on a page were extending into the fold and onto the next page. I went back to my InDesign file and found that those elements were properly placed and did not extend into the fold as they were doing in the PDF file. I tried different PPDs, exporting the file with and without printer's marks... all to no avail. I finally printed the file to a Postscript (PS) file and then exported that file to PDF and got it to work. However, I would prefer to avoid that extra step. What is going on? Why is the file enlarging (coincidentally the EXACT same amount that the bleed was set for) and/or what am I doing wrong? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Are you familiar with bleeds etc? i.e. have you used them before? It sounds to me as if you're doing everything mostly right but not realising that Acrobat and Reader (please don't mention Mac Preview) show the size including the bleeds when you choose those options upon export from Indesign.
Go back and check your document setup. Page size should be excatly just that, finished page size. Bleed settings (you might have to tick more options to see them) should be also just that. Export the PDF, go to 'Marks and bleeds' tick 'Use Document bleed settings' and you're done. The document will appear bigger.
oh and use the camera button for screenshots.
You can see the actual size of the doc by going Advanced > Print Production > Crop Pages and toggling between TrimBox (the size the page will get trimmed to) and CropBox (which includes the bleeds and is what displays).

Enlarging a PDF file

Wondering if I can take a PDF file of a lake map and print it larger that 8*11, with out using the cut and paste method.
Joe

See if this helps...
Set page scaling
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332720.html
or this
http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_enlarge_a_pdf_for_printing.html

Enlarging PDF at 200% and more

I migrated from quark to Indesign a few months back and I found the program great, but it is one thing that I haven't been able to find
Basically, when I was working with quark and we couldn't make the file full size (because the dimensions were too big for the program), I was creating the file half size and then I used to print to file as an Adobe PostScript file enlarging it at 200%, and then converting it to a PDF in Acrobat Distiller.
From indesign (to enlarge the pdf) I tried to do the old fashion way, saving a PS and then converting it to PDF in acrobat, but unfortunately it didn't work.
I dont know how to create the PDF at 200% the size from indesign
Basically, I would like to know if I can enlarge pdfs (200%,300% etc) generated from indesign CS3, it is just because I am working with huge sizes
Thank you
Ligia Murphy

It also sounds like your preferences might be corrupt. I'm not having any trouble scaling a postscript file, either.
see http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751 001ea8cb3f-6d1e.html for directions on how to replace your preferences. If you've done any program customizations you'll want to use the longer, manual, method of backing up by renaming the preference files, just in case it turns out not to help. That's explained in the comments.
Export any saved presets you created using the "define" dialogs before you replace preferences, and if you have default styles or swatches, put them into a blank document and save it somewhere first, too, so you can re-build those.
Peter

Problem with Thin White Line in PDF

I am encountering an appearance issue in a pdf created from a FrameMaker 11 file, using Adobe Acrobat X Pro and Adobe Acrobat Distiller X. The pdf displays a table that has black lines running vertically between every other column. In the column in between these lines, there appears to be a thin white line displaying. If I enlarge the pdf to 200%, the white line disappers. I right-clicked on the pdf and in the menu under "Page Display Preferences ...", I chose "Page Display" under the "Categories" column and then "Rendering". I then iuncheck the "Enhance thin lines" feature and this removes the thin line from the pdf. However, if I process another pdf for a different FrameMaker 11 file, the "Enhance thin lines" feature is unchecked and this affects the appearance of these other pdfs. Consequently, I need to reselect the "Enhance thin lines" feature in order to process these pdfs. However, if I reselect this, I'm noticing that when I open the pdf that has the thin line issue, the thin line is visible and the "Enhance thin lines" feature is selected. Is there a way to adjust this, so that the "Enhance thin lines" feature is removed for only this one pdf, but is selected for the other pdfs?

I think you are seeing Stitching Lines. If you can zoom in and the width does not change, they likely stitching lines. (Any actual content should scale proportionate)
Do a search for the term .
Stitching Lines are an on screen artifact which do not print (on high resolution ouput) caused by transparency flattening. You use of Distiller joboption probably invokes flattening.
Enhance Thin Lines is a local preference of Acrobat. I doubt it could be retained in a file.

I just updated Adobe but I continue to get the message that I need to update Adobe in order to open the PDF

I just updated to the latest version of Adobe but I still unable to open the PDF

When you open the PDF document in Adobe Reader for iOS, do you see a message like this?
(Tap/click the image above to enlarge)
Your PDF document is a special type of form called a "dynamic XFA form".
Currently, Adobe Reader mobile products (Reader for iOS, Android, Windows Phone) do not support static or dynamic XFA forms created with Adobe LiveCycle Designer.
The message "Please wait..." is displayed when a dynamic content is not supported by a PDF viewer.
The following blog post by Jeff Stanier (Adobe LiveCycle Designer Product Manager) explains the reason why XFA forms are not supported on mobile.
Adobe Reader Mobile and XFA forms from LiveCycle Designer
You can use the desktop version of Adobe Reader on a Windows or Mac computer to fill out XFA forms.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

How Do You Enlarge Text In Acrobat X?

All I want to do is go into a PDF file and enlarge the text, so that when I print it, the text is larger than what has been sent to me.
Can someone with a generous heart, just please give me step by step guidance? Literally, a step by step guide as in, go here, then go there, then do this, then do that.
Brought the software this year, 2011. At a lost.
Thank you so much,
Peter Reznikoff
[email address deleted by host]

Steve is correct (as usual), however if you are desperate, here are a few work-arounds:
1. Buy a PDF editor like Pitstop, expensive, but useful.
2. Open and edit the PDF in Illustrator, dicy and lots of potential problems, depending on the flavor of your PDF.
3. Make a copy of your PDF, Using Tools> Advanced editing> Touch up object tool> select and delete everything except the type you want to enlarge. Delete the type on your original, then place both PDFs in InDesign and enlarge the PDF with the type, Export to a new PDF.

Preview freeze and not working fine on PDF view (building plans)

Imac 27" 5k i7 32GB Osx 10.10.1
When opening a PDF in preview (mostly building plans) some lines are not viewable. When enlarging the pdf and every time i'm scrolling preview freeze for a 30".
(in quick view (mail) the hole PDF is perfect viewable but not scaleable)
Also secured PDF could not be enlarged.
This al worked perfect on Mavericks on my other Imac 27" i7 16GB (mid 2011) 10.9 before upgrading to 10.10 (now it have de same problems as my brand new 5k)
I hope apple coms whit an solution quickly.

Firewall issues were preventing this problem.

[CS3] Used font in a document: Index?

Hello!
I am working with IUsedFontList and IPMFont.
But none is telling me the index of a font used in a document.
How can I get the index of a font used in a document?
Alois Blaimer

Changing fonts/font sizes in a scanned document requires a product like Acrobat to
convert the scanned image into text (OCR)
make actual changes to the text
With Adobe Reader you can use the Zoom function to enlarge the PDF document content.

Mark each page if digital sig tampered

I'm not really sure if this can be done and would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.
Is there a way that if a digital signature is applied to a PDF to have some sort of image or annotation appear if someone has altered the document?
For example have a big red "X" appear on each page if the digitally signed document is tampered with.

Hi,
I thought it was you saying - "If I sign the first page, Acrobat will interpret it as "Rev A". Signing the 2nd sheet, will be viewed as "Rev B", etc. I don't want this"
One reason is that each digital signature will create a new revision, and will enlarge the PDF file size
The main reason IMO, is that digitally signing a single file by the same person more than once makes no sense, and therefore is a bad design. Not that stamping each page is a great idea, but you can say it is done for "backward compatibility"
Think of the time people sent messages by lighting fire, so a bonfire is set by the guy who wants to send the message, and then the person on the next hill sees the fire and do the same to "transmit" this message onward and you need 10 people and 10 bonfires to send a message for 10 miles. Now you have a startup! and you think it can be done by phone. will you call the guy on the next hill and ask him to call the second guy in the chain that will call to the third, etc.? or would you call the guy that is 10 miles from you directly?

How do I print 2 pages from a pdf file and enlarge it

how do i print 2 pages from a file and enlarge it to email

Hi stevebulldog,
Do I understand correctly that you'd like to extract two pages from a PDF, and then send them via email?
To extract pages from a PDF, you need to use Acrobat. If you don't have Acrobat, you can try it for free for 30 days. Please see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html.
I'm not sure what you mean by "enlarge" it. When your recipient views the PDF, they can enlarge the view (zoom in on the PDF) by choosing options from the View menu in Acrobat or Reader.
Best,
Sara

How can I change a PDF document to have an enlarged text area and smaller margins?

I've just been reading a long discussion initiated by a guy who wanted to recompose a PDF file to print in fewer pages. I'm not asking about that. I'm aware that Acrobat Pro 9 will not recompose the pages of a pdf for you; as someone said, it's not a word processing program. I want to copy a PDF to a new file with an enlarged text area and smaller margins, so I can read it more easily. My eyesight isn't so great.
I'm trying to print a decision of the US Supreme Court, for my study. The problem is that these PDF files of such decisions are composed in 10-point type with generous margins, in folio-size pages smaller than 8 1/2 x 11". When you open PDF files of these decisions, you get extremely wide margins and relatively small type. Essentially, I'd like to re-rasterize the document so it prints on my 8 1/2 x 11" paper in a larger apparent type size, but in the same high resolution as the original. By the way, the decision I'm working on is almost 200 pages long, so I don't want to do this, obviously, in a page by page manner.
I guess I could do this in Photoshop, by blowing pages up and cropping them. Photoshop does a good job of eliminating the jaggies when you do this. But it would seem better to re-rasterize the pages from the PDF source file. So would any reader be kind enough to explain this process to me? (I'm fairly savvy in Photoshop, Illustrator, and computer printer concepts, but a complete newb in Acrobat.)

If you just want this for printing, one thing you can easily do is crop all of the pages to remove the margins. For example, you can rop 2" off the left and right sides, and 1.5" off the top and bottom. Then print using a Page Scaling of "Fit to Printable Area".
To crop in Acrobat 9, select: Document > Crop Pages
be sure to select All for the Page Range.

Errors in Export to PDF for web use - some images are lost when PDF is enlarged & in browser

I have a multi-page PDF in InDesign CS6 that I want to export to view on the web. I need the file to stay under 2MB, and I need it to be crisp and nice enough to read the type on the page (as small as 9pt type).
The errors that are occurring are the following:
On some browsers, some images will entirely not show up. Some of the missing images have been pasted into the document, some placed. I cannot think of a correlation.
When the PDF is enlarged (Adobe Acrobat X 10.1.10) to more than ~200%, there is one placed image that will mostly disappear. What I mean by "mostly" is that little bits of it are still visible, like I masked it carelessly or something. Since this is only occurring with one image it seems that it would be a problem with the image itself, yes? I'm all ears if I'm making a mistake. It is a placed .ai file with no link errors. Should I not be placing directly from illustrator? It renders wonderfully from 100% all the way up to 188%, and then if you enlarge by margins of 1% little bits of it disappear, almost a chunk at a time.
The way I've been exporting is:
File > Export > Adobe PDF (Print)
Adobe PDF Preset: Smallest File Size
Standard: None
Compatinility: Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5)
Options: Optimize for Fast Web View
Export Layers: Visible & Printable Layers
Compression
I always change the downsampling from [100/150] to [150/225]. I usually leave the JPG image quality low. I leave both bottom boxes checked (compress text and line art, crop image data to frames)
Output
Color Conversion: convert to destination
Destination: sRGB 1EC61966-2.1
Profile Inclusion Policy: Include Destination Profile
However, after reading a few other forum questions I started trying to export as Acrobat 4 so that it would flatten. When I do that, problem #2 still persists although I didn't test problem #1. I haven't tried using Distiller, and using the "prepare for web publishing" action within Acrobat itself makes the PDF too artifacted.
At the heart of my question is this: I am a young designer at an old company that is not necessarily keeping up with the times. I REALLY want to know what the best, most efficient way to export a pdf for web viewing is. Does this exist in InDesign, outside of InDesign? Does it exist at all? Tell me what I'm doing wrong so that I can get better!
Thank you in advance.

Show Large Images is a preference inside of Acrobat which might be disabled.
Acrobat - File > Preferences

PDF Optimizer enlarging size of PDFs

Hi
We have a vendor who supplies PDF files to us. These PDF files are around 4-5MB in size, and need to be reduced for the web. Using the Reduce File Size menu enlarges them to around 18MB. Using the PDF Optimizer also enlarges the files to the same size, no matter what settings/presets you use. I've tried 3rd party PDF reduction software, and they either don't reduce the file at all, or crash. No problem with other vendor PDFs.
Looking at the resultant 18MB file in Pitstop, the images haven't been downsampled at all, and have in fact lost their compression all together. The only two ways I have to compress these files is 1) Manually using Pitstop image by image, or 2) printing to PDF using the smallest file size distiller option. Both methods are too slow.
One unusual message comes up after reducing the file size: %% [Error: invalidfont; PostScript program did not contain a font ]%%
If I delete all objects except the images and reduce the file size again, it stops the error message, but the result is still 18MB. PDF version is 1.3 (4.x)
Anybody got any ideas?
Cheers,
Andrew.

Thanks for the reply Mike.
The PDF File Optimizer is what I would prefer to use, and it works very well with most PDFs. Unfortunately, these particular PDFs don't compress using the Optimizer. I've tried many different settings, even dropping the images down to 50dpi, and Low quality, but no matter what settings I use, the files always end up around 5 times the size of the original, and the images don't get compressed or downsampled.
I think the files must all be corrupted in some way, as the only way to fix them is to repdf them from Acrobat, which unfortunately is time consuming, and it's happening to all PDF files from this agency.
Cheers,
Andrew.

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