General ⇒ Printing paper size question with Texniccenter

[StarGhost]

Hello everyone,

I'm a beginner to the world of LaTex, and have just encountered some problem which I cannot figure out myself the solution. I have written a thesis using TexNicCenter with A4 size and output using PdfTex to a pdf file. Now I would like to print it out as a book. The problem is that the printing office does not allow the book to be of A4 size, but only B5, and they asked me to change the font size, figure size, etc. basically everything to fit this B5, and yes they know nothing about what on Earth is LaTex.

I was confused about how I am supposed to do so. Just wondering if there is a way to make it like everything is scaled out to, say 70%, like images zoom out to fit the paper size, or do I have to do as they said, i.e., resize all my fonts and figures, tables.

If the first solution is possible, then would it be done from the LaTex code itself, or by PDF printing options, or something else? Also, please advice if you have any idea on how the B5 printing process take place, and will it affect the way I should change my document, because I can only print A4 papers using normal printer.

Regards,

SG.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Starghost,

the crop package may be useful for you. Have a look at this example:

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\documentclass[b5paper,10pt]{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[a4,center,cam]{crop}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test}
\blindtext[20]
\end{document}

Remove the center option perhaps if it comes to cutting the paper, I set it for visualization.
My personal opinion is that I would change the layout with LaTeX, I would not scale the a4 document.

Btw. that subject is independent of the editor used (TeXnicCenter), that's why I will move the topic to the LaTeX/General subforum later, but I'll wait with that until you've found my answer.

Stefan

[StarGhost]

Thank you very much Stefan, it really helps me with my problem. I'm sorry that the post was not on the right place, please fix me.

Regards,

SG.