Question: How to modify an A4 bruchure of 36 pages to A5 size

[Widebody]

Hello from Berlin/Germany.

I purchased Affinity Publisher in September and managed to get a 36pages bruchure ready, that has been printed professionally 1700 times in A4 size.
Now I'd like to have another 1000 of this brochure, but this time in A5 size. But everything I created using Affinity Publisher is A4+3mm bleed and the printing house needs A5+3mm bleed as source for printing...

Is there an easy way to export an A4 created document as PDF-X1-2003 in A5 size?

Using "Spread Setup" I can choose a differrent page size, but the content remains in the original size...

Thank You / Danke / Merci

Ralf

Edited November 12, 2020 by Widebody

[dominik]

52 minutes ago, Widebody said:

Is there an easy way to export an A4 created document as PDF-X1-2003 in A5 size?

Hello @Widebody and welcome to the forum.

If you are asking for an easy way I am afraid the answer is no or 'it depends'.

In spread setup you can change the page size and set the margins. There also is a tab labelled 'Scaling'. There you choose 'Rescale' and 'Anchor' set to midpoint of the page.
This can be a starting point but most likely a lot of details in your layout need readjustment. Try and see how that works.

I would rather look into an external software that can resize PDFs.
There are some PDF aficionados around. Maybe they chime in with a solution.

Cheers,
d.

[Joachim_L]

Just from my experience: I printed to a PDF printer with a scaling of 71% and the printing house did not complain. Or simply ask the printing house to do the scaling on the original PDF.

[Widebody]

Danke Ihr beiden ! - Thank you!
Ralf