: Best way to resize book in different size? I have some 120 pages 2-colour books (with line diagrams and some grayscale pictures) designed in Coreldraw and Indesign in a specific size (8.5" x

@Turnbaugh909

I really would suggest you take the time to resize the InDesign document, then reflow the text throughout the book. This is only way to be certain things appear correct. Quality layout takes time, shortcuts often result in errors.

If you really want to "patch" something together, do not export as tiff. Export as a PDF document, then you can "Place" each PDF page on a new InDesign page and scale it. PDF will retain the vector and live type data, a tiff will be 100% raster.

Realize if you merely scale pages, type sizes get smaller as well. So if you set the book in 10/11pt type, you are then looking at 8-9pt type, which is far too small for most people to read comfortably -- again why I suggest reflowing the live text. And if you have footnotes or figure captions or anything set smaller than the base text size, it'll get reduced to probably unreadable sizes.

For a reduction that great, you would be better leaving type sizes as they are, then adding additional pages to the book to compensate for the smaller size.

Scaling is fine if the scale factor is minimal (5% or less), but a ~15% reduction is just too great to expect scaling to be a feasible option in my opinion.

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