This is hands down the easiest method to resize your printable materials or any documents for that matter. All you need is a Chrome browser that you can download here and a printer.
Step 1: Download the printable as a PDF or a PNG/JPEG (It really doesn’t matter) to your computer’s hard drive.
Step 2: Open the PDF in the Chrome browser.
Step 3: Load your printer with paper that is the exact size you need your printable or artwork to be.
Step 4: Press the printer icon in the upper right corner of the screen. The Print window will open. Click on the More settings button.
Step 5: Under Paper Size, choose the paper size you want to print on today. I’ll choose A4.
Step 6: Choose the printing quality of your printable. The options are usually 600 dpi or 1,200 dpi. The latter is better quality but the printer will print more slowly. If you have a lot of papers to print, it might take a while.
Step 7: Now we need to tell our printer to fit the artwork to the A4 page (or whatever other size you want to print on). To do that, choose to fit the paper.
And, that’s it! The bigger artwork or printable activity should now print on a smaller (or larger) page and fit on it.
We’ll need to follow the same steps to increase the size of the artwork or printable, or any other document that we want to resize. We need to keep in mind that there might be some image quality deterioration if you expand the image.
Sometimes, the previous method for whatever reason just isn’t going to work for you. Don’t despair, there’s another way. And by doing it this way, the printer will print a smaller (or larger) picture on a regular-sized paper.
There will be white areas on the paper which you will need to cut off. Also, some of the steps will naturally be the same.
Step 1: Download the printable as a PDF or a PNG/JPEG (It really doesn’t matter) to your computer’s hard drive.
Step 2: Open the PDF in the Chrome browser.
Step 3: Load your printer with paper that is the exact size you need your printable to be.
Step 4: Choose the “custom scale” option and put in a smaller percentage than 100%. If you want to print the image 2/3 the size that it is now, you need to input 75%.
You can preview the image as you’re adjusting the percentage scale. If the image printed is smaller or larger than you intended it to be, go back and experiment with the custom scale percentage by increasing or decreasing it just a bit.
If for some reason you don’t have the Chrome browser or you don’t want to download it, you can use the Adobe Reader as it will have similar steps and is pretty straightforward.
