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A printing question... - RAMd®d - 02-21-2022
My little Brother printer doesn't provide much in the way of page layout, which may be the purview of the app that created my pdf — Preview.
The pdf is an A4 page with a graphic at the top of the page in Portrait orientation, a little right of center, and taking up a about 1/5 or less of vertical space.
I'd like to horizontally center the graphic and increase the sizee to fill the page (still in Portrait orientation).
This would probably be approximately 1/4 or a little more of vertical space.
If I increase the size using the printer's software (?) in Details, much of it spill off the left of the page, with no way to shift it to the right.
So I suspect this has to be done in the pdf, not the printer.
Preview (in Sierra) doesn't seem to do this.
I thought I'd try Pages 5.2, but it won't open the Preview pdf.
Some options, please.
Re: A printing question... - Tiangou - 02-21-2022
If you want to fill the page with an image cropped from a PDF, there's an easy way to do that in Preview.
Draw a marquee around the image and copy to the clipboard, then close the PDF document and make a new document.
The new document will auto-fill and auto-size to the clipboard.
The when you print, opt to scale to fill the page.
Re: A printing question... - RAMd®d - 02-21-2022
Thank you for the assist, but I couldn't make it work.
I did make do with what I had, so that's close enough for Govt. work.