[Therion] Scaling the entire output

Tarquin Wilton-Jones tarquin.wilton-jones at ntlworld.com
Wed Jun 4 23:09:46 CEST 2025


Hi,

I am sure I am not the only person to have this need, so I must have 
missed an option or control somewhere, or just misunderstood how scaling 
works.

I output the survey like this:
base-scale 1 100
scale 1 100

That makes a page 104.5 x 56.8 cm.

I need to send it to a printer company, for printing at A2 (59.4 cm 
longer dimension). If I were printing this myself, I would just tick the 
"scale to fit" box in the PDF app. But the printing company say that the 
PDF sheet size needs to match the A2 paper size.

I can set:
base-scale 1 176
scale 1 176
And that gets the survey right. But it renders the *legend* and any 
embedded map-image at the static width. I can set the size of the 
legend, but then it still draws everything as if it were the old 
non-scaled size.

What I want to do is to scale the actual output, the same way that a PDF 
app's printing tickbox would. Is that possible?

Cheers,

Tarquin


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