Expert: Paul Jordan - 6/16/2009

Question
I have created a title block for an 8 1/2 x 11 size sheet. I am wondering if there is a way to scale this to increase to the subsequent page sizes (11 x 17, 17 x 22, 22 x 34) without having to recreate for each size? Thanks for your help here.

Answer
Hi Lorri, there are actually two ways we can look at scaling up your title blocks.  If you have text in the box (say the lower right hand corner) you might want to just scale up the borders or actually stretch them to the length you need.  If you scale the whole titleblock, all your text that's in that box will scale along with everything else and I don't think you want that.  

So, if you've already got your text in the block, you'll want to stretch the sides and the top to the sizes you want, saving each page size as you go.  If you don't have the text in there, you can scale the block up to the sizes you need.  

Stretching is probably your best bet.  Just do a stretch and do a crossing across the top of your block and stretch it the difference between say 8 1/2 and 11 and then do the left side and stretch that the difference between 11 and 17.

Hope that helps.

Paul