Windows – How to change page scaling while printing a PDF on Windows 10

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I deal with a lot of poster-sized PDF files. In older versions of Acrobat Reader, when printing you could change the scaling (so it would shrink to one page, or split across multiple printer pages).

In Windows 10 though, with the Adobe reader built in to Edge, there is no scaling option, and it automatically shrinks the whole poster to fit on one physical printer page.

Problem is though I need to print out these posters full-size, with the little page-alignment marks. I tried installing regular reader from Adobe's website, but it tells me it cannot install because another version of Acrobat is already installed. So I looked in Add/Remove to try to uninstall the Edge version of reader, but it not listed as an removable program.

In Windows 10, how can I print out a poster-sized PDF at full size?

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Went back and tried downloading Acrobat Reader today from Adobe's site, and the latest version now does install on Windows 10 alongside the Lite version built in to Edge.

This is Acrobat Reader DC, version 2015.010.20056. Seems to work fine.

I had tried installing from Adobe's website originally I guess a couple months ago. So it seems like it was just an issue with the version that was up on their servers a month or two ago. Nice that they finally fixed this.

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Either approach should be fine. It's often best to use the application's print dialog rather than the printer's as the application has more information about the document in its control.

For the 'flip on x edge' question, it depends on the layout of your booklet. If your booklet is A4 sheets folded (and so each page of the booklet is an A5 page, 4 per sheet) then you want 'flip on short edge'.

The way to think about it is to imagine holding a finished sheet of your duplexed printout and turning it over so that the text stays the correct way up. If you imagined turning it over the short side, then select 'flip on short edge'.

Another rule of thumb is if the finished sheet is in landscape then flip on short edge, otherwise flip on long edge:

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|             |              |
|   Text      |   Text       |
|   Page 1    |   Page 2     |   <--- Single sheet of paper
|             |              |
|             |              |
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Select 'Flip on short edge'

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|             |
|   Text      |
|   Page 1    |                  <--- Single sheet of paper
|             |
|             |
|             |
|             |
---------------

Select 'Flip on long edge'

How to print one page enlarged to multiple pages

I know this is old, but just in case people come across this on Google, Adobe Reader X can do it now. Just select "Poster" mode when printing and scale it accordingly.

Foxit also has that mode, but I found that it doesn't work if the PDF has a plugin, for example the Mindjet plugin.

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