How do I scale up a pdf pattern?

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March 09, 2020, 08:28 PM

fwbulldog

How do I scale up a pdf pattern?

My wife bought a craft pattern that came in a pdf file. It’s intended to be printed on 8.5 x11 paper.

I need to scale it up by 100% and print the pattern. Is there a program that will scale up and still allow me to print on 8.5 x 11?

Is there a way to tile print the enlarged pattern?

March 09, 2020, 10:14 PM

Rey HRH

I would take a screenshot of the pattern magnified. Then size it to where you want.

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March 09, 2020, 10:39 PM

Aeteocles

The printer dialogue will give you the option to scale and tile.

March 10, 2020, 08:29 AM

Beancooker

If you can’t get it to work, email it to me. I have acrobat and can scale it.

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March 10, 2020, 08:51 AM

joel9507

quote:
Originally posted by Aeteocles:
The printer dialogue will give you the option to scale and tile.

This, or see if you have a local FedEx Office/Staples/Office Depot that has a B size printer.

If so, you could have them do the scale thing there and print it out double-sized on one sheet of 11x17 paper.

March 10, 2020, 09:43 AM

smschulz

You can resize most any image.
You can convert to an image file and resize in a lot of picture programs including MS Paint.
However, while increasing in size it will decrease the resolution.
To maintain that you need the file in a vector format readable in programs like Corel Draw and others.
The former are called raster images and the latter is vector.
It is possible to convert from raster to vector but it takes some work.
If the increased resolution doesn't make much difference just resize it without the conversion - much easier process.

March 10, 2020, 07:54 PM

fwbulldog

Thanks guys. I needed to download the latest Acrobat, and the print option I was looking for is called "poster". From there you can select the sizing and "tile print with cut marks".

Got it done. Thx!