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Resize artwork for print
This tool scales a PDF or image to a different finished size in your browser — your file never leaves your computer. The proportions stay honest, so the A5 flyer becomes the A2 poster without a stretched logo.
1. Source file
2. Target size
Automated · not a substitute for a person
If what comes out is not right, send it to us
These tools run on their own in your browser, and automatic is not the same as correct. A trace can miss a curve or turn a smooth arc into short straight segments. A cut contour can clip a tight corner. Bleed can be added to a file that was never built to carry it, and a check can pass artwork that still has something wrong with it only a person would notice. Treat what comes out as a starting point, not a proof.
If you are not happy with the result, send it to us and we will set the artwork up properly — free when you print the job with us. No setup fee, nothing to pay for the time. We would far rather spend twenty minutes on a file than have you print something you are not pleased with, and you still see a proof before anything runs. If you are printing it somewhere else, we will still set it up — that is artwork setup, at a fixed price from $29.
Scaling up costs you resolution
Making artwork larger does not add detail — it spreads the detail you have over more area. Double the width of a 300dpi file and you have a 150dpi file. That may be perfectly acceptable, depending on how close anyone gets to it.
The practical test is viewing distance rather than a number. Something read at arm's length needs 300dpi. A pull-up banner read from two metres is fine at 150. A sign read from across a car park is fine well below 100.
Aspect ratio is the trap
A5 and A4 share a ratio, so scaling between them is clean. A5 to DL does not — a DL is much narrower relative to its height, and forcing one into the other either distorts the artwork or crops it. This tool will not stretch your design to fit; it keeps the proportions and tells you what is left over.
Vector artwork ignores all of this. An AI, EPS or PDF built from vectors scales to any size with no loss whatsoever. If your design is vector and only the photographs inside it are raster, only those photographs are at risk — see the resolution checker.
After resizing
- Re-add bleed. Scaling changes the finished size, so the old 3mm bleed is now the wrong 3mm. Run it through the bleed tool afterwards, not before.
- Check the type again. 8pt body copy scaled down for a smaller format may now be below what a press can hold cleanly.
- Check the safe area. A different aspect ratio moves everything relative to the trim.
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