Printing a PDF larger (twice normal size)

Hello all,
I have a PDF I wanna print out. When I print it it's 1 pg long.
I want to double its size & print it over 2 pages.
I have tried the following:
in PREVIEW.app--increasing Page Setup print size to 200%. This just centers the PDF and leaves off the top & bottom of the PDF.
in GraphicConverter--same thing. Same results. (If I convert to JPG it gets jaggy (due to anti-aliasing) and preints out looking like cr*p)
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
John Boyarsky
7th & 8th Grade Math & Yearbook Guy
Randy Smith Middle School
(I seem to be good at these questions no one can answer... I've got 3 unresolved ones with no good answers for any of them...)

As usual, it's a problem no one else has. (Story of my life on Computer troubles-- makes me a great Beta Tester!)
Never figgered this out before updating to Leopard, which works.
Thanks
John

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