HOW TO: Align Printed Documents After Scaling

This post shows an approach that can be used with ePrint to to re-align a printed page after scaling down the size of the page.

The first step is to create the Realignment Task Printer that will print to the target output printer (whether physical or virtual) while re-aligning the scaled down pages.

To do this, choose Tools -> Task Printers Manager and in the Task Printers Manager dialog, click the Add button and do the following:

• In the Batch Print section, select the target printer and enable its checkbox.
  
• Right-Click the target printer and select Properties and configure the target paper size (e.g. A4/Letter)
  
• Right-Click the target printer and select Enhanced Options
  
• In the dialog that shows, enable Enhanced Options then select the desired settings for layout, gutter control, and margin. For alignment, enable Best Fit then select the desired horizontal and vertical alignments.

The second step is to configure the Scale-Down Task Printer that will print the source page to a smaller paper size, thus scaling down its contents. As above, use the Task Printers Manager to create a second task printer with the following configuration:

• In the Batch Print section, select the Realignment Task Printer created above and enable its checkbox.
  
• Right-Click the Realignment Task Printer and select Properties and configure the target paper size to scale down the pages as desired. You can also use the Add... button to configure a custom paper size (e.g. 50% scaling of A4 dimensions)

When complete, printing to the the Scale-Down Task Printer will automatically scale down the the pages then sends them to the Realignment Task Printer which will realign the pages before sending them to the output target printer.