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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Magnification (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Magnification (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Magnification (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Global-Document-Commands.html" rel="up" title="Global Document Commands"> <link href="_0040pagesizes.html" rel="prev" title="@pagesizes"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Magnification"> <div class="header"> <p> Previous: <a href="_0040pagesizes.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@pagesizes</code> [<var>width</var>][, <var>height</var>]: Custom Page Sizes</a>, Up: <a href="Global-Document-Commands.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Global Document Commands</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Magnification-1"></span><h3 class="section">E.9 Magnification</h3> <span id="Cropmarks-and-Magnification"></span> <span id="index-_005cmag-_0028raw-TeX-magnification_0029"></span> <span id="index-Magnified-printing"></span> <span id="index-Larger-or-smaller-pages"></span> <p>You can attempt to direct TeX to typeset pages larger or smaller than usual with the <code>\mag</code> TeX command. Everything that is typeset is scaled proportionally larger or smaller. (<code>\mag</code> stands for “magnification”.) This is <em>not</em> a Texinfo @-command, but is a raw TeX command that is prefixed with a backslash. You have to write this command between <code>@tex</code> and <code>@end tex</code> (see <a href="Raw-Formatter-Commands.html">Raw Formatter Commands</a>). </p> <p>Follow the <code>\mag</code> command with an ‘<samp>=</samp>’ and then a number that is 1000 times the magnification you desire. For example, to print pages at 1.2 normal size, write the following near the beginning of the Texinfo file, before the title page: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@tex \global\mag=1200 @end tex </pre></div> <p>With some printing technologies, you can print normal-sized copies that look better than usual by giving a larger-than-normal master to your print shop. They do the reduction, thus effectively increasing the resolution. </p> <p>Depending on your system, DVI files prepared with a nonstandard-<code>\mag</code> may not print or may print only with certain magnifications. Be prepared to experiment. </p> </div> </body> </html>