[Ham-Computers] Enlarging schematics received as .pdf files?

[Mike D.]

Try this --

Zoom in on the area you want to enlarge and print. Then use your PRINT
SCREEN key. This essentially copies the image you see on your screen to the
clipboard. Then open up a Word Processor and click PASTE. You should see the
same enlarged image you see on your screen. Voila -- then print it out.

I just tested it with a PDF file copied to MS Word.

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> I hope that this question isn't that far off topic...
>
> I just received a schematic for my Drake R-4A
> It came as two pages in the Adobe .pdf format.
>
> It's real easy to read if I use the Adobe toolbar
> option that allows me to "zoom in".
>
> Printing the page is another story though.  The
> original schematic was 11" x 17" and I got the
> schematic in two pages - two .pdf files.  One is
> the left side and the other is the right side of the
> original larger schematic.
>
> I can't figure out a way to print anything other
> than the two halves of the original as 8" x 11"
> pages from the two pages in the .pdf files.
>
> I sure would like somehow to be able to print
> the schematic, in as many pages as might be
> required, of the "zoomed in" page that Adobe
> offers me in much greater detail.
>
> Any ideas on how this might be done?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts and ideas.
>
> John