What is the best way to resize a book?

I have InDesign CC and I am designing a culture book for my company. It’s about 100 pages and full of pictures, shapes, and text.
The book is almost completed, but I just got word today that we are changing the size. The original size was 7x9 and the new size is 6x9. This throws off the whole layout.
What is the best/ fastest way to scale down the book? Because all I know right now is manually re-laying out each page.
I also have acrobat XI pro, just in case I can use this software to help in the resizing process.
Thanks.

@fcgpublishing – the "easiest" way would be to scale the contents only in x-axis to fit the new size.
You can do it on the InDesign pages with all objects selected.
You can do it with exported PDF pages placed into a new InDesign file and scale these.
But this would do harm to your aestetic preferences…
Sigh. No easy question. There is no magic way to do it without losing something on its way. Time and effort is needed to refine the process and the results. Whatever you like to chose: Alternate Layout, Layout Adjustment, writing a script…
"Best" and "fastest" are not compatible here.
Define "best" and you'll see it's not "fastest".
Uwe

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