How do I turn a large poster into a small PDF?

I made an academic poster in Pages (about 4' x 3') but now i need to save it as a PDF to send out. Both printing as a PDF and exporting as a PDF look horrible, so I am following previous advice and saving it as a PostScript and then opening in Preview. But most of my document gets cropped and I just get a small corner of the original, even though I changed custom sizes in both Pages and Preview to the 4' x 3'.
I am thinking now it is because I cant find a setting for 'any printer' in the printer drop down, so it is set to a printer that only does A4, and that is contraining the size.
Can any one tell me
1) A better way to turn the pages doc into a nice PDF
2) A way to reduce the Pages doc to A4 without cropping?
3) A way to select 'any printer' in the printer dialogue?
Any advice welcome, I really need to send this thing out!

A pdf doesn't have to be any particular size. It can be printed to fit at destination.
Have you tried simply scaling the output % to what you want?
Menu > File > Print > Layout > Paper Handling > Scale to fit paper size > Destination Paper: A4 > PDF > Save as PDF…
Peter
btw 4' x 3' is the wrong proportion for A4

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