scribble: how to make a large print PDF?

Question

I have a Scribble document (file.scrbl) that I'm using to make a PDF (scribble --pdf file.scrbl). I want to make a large print, landscape version of the PDF.

Is there an easy way to change file.scrbl to have Scribble output a large-print PDF?

Answer 1

A LaTeX-level solution is to:

1. Load the geometry package with the landscape option
2. Increase the document font size

To do this in Scribble, first make a LaTeX style file that loads the geometry package:

% texstyle.tex
\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}

second, add a paragraph with the 'pretitle style to your Scribble document, to insert a font-changing command

@; file.scrbl
@para[#:style 'pretitle]{
 @elem[#:style (make-style "fontsize" '(exact-chars))]|{28pt}{40pt}|
 @elem[#:style "selectfont"]}

To build the PDF, run:

scribble ++style texstyle.tex --pdf file.scrbl