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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="guide" style="task"
      id="print-pagescaling">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="printing"/>
    <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2015</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal-unported.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Shrink or expand the document to fit the paper size.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Scale page for printing</title>

  <p>If you want to change the paper size of your document (for example, print
  a US Letter-sized PDF on A4 paper), you can change the printing format for
  the document.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the menu at the top-right of the window, then select
      <gui style="menuitem">Print…</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the <gui style="tab">Page Handling</gui> tab.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Choose a <em>Page Scaling</em> from the drop-down list.</p>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p><em>None</em>: do not perform page scaling.</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p><em>Shrink to Printable Area</em>: document pages larger than the
          printable area are reduced to fit the printable area of the printer
          page.</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p><em>Fit to Printable Area</em>: document pages are enlarged or
          reduced as required to fit the printable area of the printer
          page.</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click <gui>Print</gui> to print your document.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>