Acrobat Help

[hyunelan2]

I have a scale drawing in a .PDF format, that I need to reprint in a specific scale. I.E. I need to define 30%, 40% size. I've been messing with this stupid thing for about 1/2 an hour now, and cannot find any specific page scaling, only "fit to paper, shrink large pages, etc." I am using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional. Anyone know how to specify the print scale?

[mtlelantra]

I tried looking in my acrobat 6 pro and can't find anything to do it either, although my HP color laserjet itself has a function that can scale it... Maybe your printer can too?

[hyunelan2]

Yea, I tried using the scaling feature on my HP8550, the only problem is you have to have acrobat scaling set to "none" otherwise the printer will scale down the already scaled down item. So, when you have the scaling set to "none" it clips the corners off the page (it's a 24x36" blueprint), and I get a scaled-down version of the center.

Right now, I'm thinking a workaround might be to export the .PDF to a TIFF file, and use Photoshop to sacle it to X% size, then print it. This is a pita compared to if I could just stay "print at 40%". I need exact figures for the scaling, otherwise the scale of the drawing will be worthless.

This is also a procedure I'm going to have to do frequently, which is why a workaround is not as good as a solution.