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converting a legal document to letter
I have a bunch of legal documents that I need to convert to letter size. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I want the content of the legal document to be resized to fit accordingly in the letter sized document. |
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converting a legal document to letter
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I have a bunch of legal documents that I need to convert to letter size. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? I want the content of the legal document to be resized to fit accordingly in the letter sized document. There si no easy way to modify the document. You would have to go through each page in legal size, make the first paragraph on each page set with the "Page Break Before" setting (So you know where each page starts). Then you could convert to Letter size. Then you would have to find a way to place 3 inches worth of text back on the previous page. You could reduce font size, font spacing, interline space, paragraph spacing, etc... A big mess... Instead, look in your "Printing" dialog (Ctrl-P). In the bottom right corner there is a Zoom section. In that Zoom section you should have a Scaling option. You can keep the document formatted in Legal size, but scale it down to Letter size when printing. Keep in mind that this will create slightly larger left/right margins as each page is shrunk to fit a a letter size page (Letter and Legal size have the same width, just a different length). |
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converting a legal document to letter
Thanks for your response Jean-Guy I really need to not only resize and print the documents but I need to resize and save them in a letter size so that they can be modified. |
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"Dave" wrote:
Thanks for your response Jean-Guy I really need to not only resize and print the documents but I need to resize and save them in a letter size so that they can be modified. I did address that issue in my first reply, and I quote: "There si no easy way to modify the document. You would have to go through each page in legal size, make the first paragraph on each page set with the "Page Break Before" setting (So you know where each page starts). Then you could convert to Letter size. Then you would have to find a way to place 3 inches worth of text back on the previous page. You could reduce font size, font spacing, interline space, paragraph spacing, etc..." Or do you have another question? |
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