Generic PDF upscaling (was: Re: Uploadable slides / New Meetecho feature)

[Christian Amsüss <[e-mail]>]

Hi chairs,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 12:04:34AM +0200, Meetecho IETF support wrote:
> While we work on a fix for this issue, David Schinazi shared a workaround he
> found when generating pdf files from Google Slides: go to File > Page Setup
> > Custom and replace "10 x 5.63 inches" with "64 x 36 inches" (or any other
> ratio that is much higher). This does not change the PDF file size at all
> (it's vectorized) but looks much better in Meetecho.

for anyone who still needs to fix slide resolution and either has only
the PDF or produces them with a tool that doesn't take "just scale
everything up 10 times" easily (looking at you, LaTeX beamer), the
pdfjam tool (shipped with texlive[1]) provies an easy way to do this:

$ pdfjam --suffix upscaled --papersize "{1600mm,900mm}" slides.pdf

HTH
Christian

[1]: https://tug.org/texlive/

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