I've created an A1 poster, and will eventually print it out that size.
But first I would like to see what it looks like A3 size. Can publisher
print my poster scaled to A3? When I try to print it it takes 9 pieces
of paper, and keeps it A1 size.
I'm very new to Publisher so I'm not sure if it contains a facility to do
that for you. I'm sure you'll find that your printer has the ability to
scale its output though. Many printers do. Have a look at your printer
properties. If not then you can always print your Publisher document as a
pdf file or perhaps as a jpg picture file and then print it from there. For
example, you can print your Publisher document as a jpg and you can then
load that jpg picture into a blank Publisher document in the normal way and
resize it to whatever size you require simply by dragging its handles. You
can then print it at that size. To do either of those things of course (pdf
or jpg) you'll need some software capable creating them. I personally use
PDFCreator, which is free and extremely easy to use and which performs very
well. It installs itself as a standard printer, and you use it simply by
selecting "PDFCreator" (instead of selecting your normal printer) when you
print your Publisher document (or any other document). PDFCreator will then
"print" the document as a file in any of a number of different formats,
including pdf, jpg, bmp, png, tiff and a few others. You'll find it to be
extremely useful. Here's where you can download it:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Maureen
