Export to A4 pdf from A3 project in affinity publisher

[CMA]

Hello,

I need help to know if my project made on A3 pages can be exported as A4 pdf ?

Thank you for your help.

Coralie

[lacerto]

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[jjk]

3 hours ago, Lagarto said:

The easiert method would be creating an A4 format document and then import your A3 document in it, and scale it to A4 (document boundaries).

Lagarto : when I import an A3 doc, it is imported as a single linked object. So I cannot edit that object. How can I do to be able to edit imported document ?

I know it is not CMA's wish who wants just export as A4 PDF. So I have a different needing.

[lacerto]

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[jjk]

When I double click, the original A3 doc is opened, and then I can edit it.
But what I want is to be able to edit A4 doc, and leave original A3 unchanged.

I just found a half-solution :

1) Create new Af A4 file
2) File > Doc configuration > Prefer integrate images 
3) Import Af A3 doc
4) Double click in imported A3, which opens a window untitled "Integrate"
5) Edit it, and close window

It would be simpler if imported doc becomes, in the target, a scaled true AfPub doc, then normally editable.

Anyway, thanks Lagarto

[Wosven]

Hi,

Or, you can  simply duplicate the page of your document, or dupplicate your document, and modify the spread properties:
(be carefull with the buged "portrait" check mark, it checks itself automatically when selecting another format, don't forget to uncheck it)

[jjk]

Bingo Wosven. C'est cela même.

It is exactly what I wanted.
Just a little issue : items on master page are not rescaled.

[Wosven]

6 minutes ago, jjk said:

items on master page are not rescaled.

Did you try resizing the master page (or dupplicating it before resizing and re-applying it)?

You can do this with the general spread setup: (if you use the baseline grid, it'll forget to reduce it, and I'm not sure all object are reduced too…)

 

 

[CMA]

On 4/24/2020 at 5:20 PM, Lagarto said:

The easiert method would be creating an A4 format document and then import your A3 document in it, and scale it to A4 (document boundaries).

Thank you !

[Joachim_L]

The easiest method would be printing to a PDF printer with a scaling of 70 or 71% if you can live with the missing 0.5%.