General ⇒ Increasing file size of a latex document

[ballchri]

I need to increase the file size in a LaTeX document, without changing the visual appearance or structure of the document. Ideally
1) The increase is spread over every page of the document evenly
2) The increase is spread over the page evenly (so it is not clustered at the top or bottom of the page)
3) No visual changes to the document
The increase in file size also needs to be arbitrary. Any help appreciated

[frabjous]

I need to increase the file size in a LaTeX document, without changing the visual appearance or structure of the document. Ideally
1) The increase is spread over every page of the document evenly
2) The increase is spread over the page evenly (so it is not clustered at the top or bottom of the page)
3) No visual changes to the document
The increase in file size also needs to be arbitrary. Any help appreciated

I think you need to be a little clearer about what you want. Increasing "file size" suggests to me that you want it to take up more space on your hard drive. I can't imagine why you'd want that.

I suppose what you're really after is to make the text bigger, but you didn't make it clear whether you wanted the page size increased too, or just reduced margins.

Assuming the latter, probably what I'd do is just compile the file as is (to pdf), then create a separate latex document that calls the pdfpages package with the scale option to include the original pdf but scale it larger, e.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
    \includepdf[scale=1.2,pages=-]{inputfile.pdf}
\end{document}

scale=1.2 is of course blowing it up by 120%. scale=1.5 would blow it up 150% and do so on. Check the pdfpages manual for options if it's necessary to offset the page, etc.

[localghost]

I need to increase the file size in a LaTeX document, without changing the visual appearance or structure of the document. [...]
The increase in file size also needs to be arbitrary. Any help appreciated

You have chosen very misleading expressions in the title of this thread to describe what you wanna do. When I think of file size, terms like kilobytes or megabytes come to my mind. In the case that you mean modifications to the page geometry (type area), the suggestion of frabjous goes into the right direction.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ballchri]

I do actually want to increase the file size of the document. I am required to submit an electronic copy of a document which I do not want to be easy to distribute electronically. A free paper reference copy will be available and the current regulations allow for a much larger file size than I am currently using.

[frabjous]

I really don't think adding to the file size is the best way to achieve your goal. If there were no protection on it, people could always extract the core anyway. If you have the Full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can encrypt or set security settings on your document. There are shareware tools that will do so as well.

[localghost]

If you are not in possession of such software like frabjous mentioned, you can take a look at PDFtk. For Windows there exists a GUI with PDFtkb.