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Anonymous
Nahhh. That way is expensive and stupid. Here's the free way. You will need:
* Minimal skills with Photoshop or a similar image editing program * Some time and concentration
Now, I'm hoping the model you want to resize is in PDF format, which most likely means it's vectorized. This means it can be resized infinitely without losing any quality, unlike gifs, jpegs, etc. If not, well, that's alright, but your final will come out a bit fuzzy most likely.
What you have to do is find the largest single piece used in the entire model, and cut it out with the selection tools. Then play with the enlargement tools until you find out how big you can make it and still fit on a normal sheet of paper (for example, you might find that if you enlarge it to 350%, it will fit perfectly on a sheet of 8.5 x 11 without going over). After you find this, it's just a matter of resizing the other pieces to the same scale, then arranging them on 8.5 x 11 size canvases. You should end up with many pages worth of re-arranged, enlarged pieces. Now all that's left is...PROFIT?!
I've done this a few times now to scale up tiny models, and it DOES work extremely well. Bit of a pain, but it's worthwhile, and as always, FREE. Fuck Kinkos, do the work yourself and save dollars.
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