Re: Using gs it is possible to scale a PDF printing it larger

Sorry, I was half asleep... Thanks for the explanation though.

$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFIXEDMEDIA
-dPDFFitPage -sPAPERSIZE=a0 -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

did the trick.


On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Ken Sharp <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 18:27 27/04/2015 +0900, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>
>
>> It is possible to scale as losslessy as possible (overall in term of
>> vectors) a pdf from a4 to a0?
>
>
> Very well phrased question :-)
>
> Yes, set the media size to the desired size, set -dFIXEDMEDIA to prevent the
> input PDF resetting it, and set -dPDFFitPage to have the PDF scaled to fit
> the page.
>
> If you use the pdfwrite device the result will be (as lossless as currently
> possible) a new PDF file scaled to the desired size.
>
> Certain aspects of the new PDF file may not reflect the original, some
> metadata is not carried forwards, images may be recompressed in the same
> format (beware of JPEG images in the input, specify Flate compression for
> colour images if this is likely), there may be some other things I haven't
> thought of.
>
>                     Ken
>