Printing changing Percentage

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#1

I want to print text at 140% but I have failed miserably.

I have changed scale in print preview but nothing happens the text remains the same.

I have searched here and elsewghere it seems to be not a possibility.

Any help welcome .

I am on mac latest OS and most up to date Libreoffice.

Thanks

#2

Print preview scale is valid, well, only for print preview. It allows you to zoom in on details as a magnifying glass would then otherwise only reveal pixels.

There is also no scale in the print dialog because it does not make sense: your document has been laid out within the limit of the page print area. Zooming is effective on the whole page and the sheet area needed would overflow it.

The solution is to change your font size.

If your document is consistently styled, i.e. is not polluted by any direct formatting (I have particularly in mind the character level), change font size in Default Paragraph Style and it will cascade to all other paragraph styles.

However, styles are rarely related to each other with %-units. They are rather grouped in clusters below overriding styles. So, your best move is to reconfigure these styles in Writer so that your document is automatically reformatted.

  1. Open Tools>Options (under MacOS, this is the Preferences menu), LO Writer>Basic Fonts (Western)
  2. The dialog allows to change default font face and size for:
    • Heading: all headings styled with Heading n, Title, …
    • List: bullet and numbered lists if the have been styled List xxx or Numbering yyy
    • Caption: figure, table, drawing, … captions
    • Index: TOC, alphabetical index, table of figures and other indexes
    • Default: everything else

There is a high probability you manually modified Body Text. So change also its font size so that your main topic will also scale.

PS:

This is not informative at all. And this statement will not meaning anything for a visitor next week or next month. Always mention OS name and exact level, LO release numeric id and save format.

#5

It is a spreadsheet I am trying to print larger.
Thank you.

#6

Then why did you tag writer? By providing erroneous (and incomplete) information, you get wrong answers.

For a spreadsheet, click in the top left empty rectangular space (left of A column, above 1 row): this selects all cells (same as Edit>Select All and change font size.

This quick’n’dirty trick assumes all your data is at the same font size and that your cell widths accept the enlarged contents.

#7

apologies. I was talking about libreoffice in general.

#8

In general,

  • you can always export to pdf and then scale the pdf for printing
  • Your printer driver might have a setting to fit to paper
#9

Thank you for that suggestion

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