How Can I Reduce My Paper Size but Still Retain the Dims of Objects on the Paper?

I have a file that I drew using version 12. The file's paper size is 100 feet wide which depicts my property lot size.

The file contains (among other items) a fence that I drew on a 1:1 scale. I drew the pickets to be 5.5 inches wide by 6 feet tall.

Now I would like to reduce the paper size to 8.5 X 11 but retain the sizes of the wood that I drew. For example:

After reducing the paper size, if I select a picket, the displayed width of a picket that I drew (i.e, that's shown in the bottom left of the Corel screen) should still read 5.5".

The manual is not too clear on how I can do this. Can somebody please help me?

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  • You can set a document to have a "scale". In the versions of CorelDRAW that I have available - X7 and newer - that is found in the "Rulers" section of the document properties.

    Since your content is already drawn at real-world size - not at a scale - you would also need to scale all objects down accordingly (e.g., select everything, then scale it all down in one operation) in order for CorelDRAW to correctly report their sizes.

    As an example, if you started with an 8.5 x 11 page, and then set the scale to 1/16" = 1', then CorelDRAW would show the page size as 1,632" x 2,112". If you scaled down all of your content by a factor of 1/192, then CorelDRAW would correctly report the real-world sizes of objects.

    Internally to CorelDRAW, your 5.5" wide picket would be only 0.083" wide - but CorelDRAW would report it as being 5.5" wide. If you applied a dimension to it, it would show it as 5.5" wide.

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