PDFs having a mixture of A4 and A3 page sizes

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Claire, there was another thread recently that had a similar theme. 
Maybe your answer is in there: 
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2011-June/023385.html

Nadine

On 07/07/2011 10:32 AM, Wood, Claire (GE Oil & Gas) wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> I was recently asked to test whether we could produce a PDF with mixed 
> page sizes. I did some experimentation with a colleague using 
> Framemaker 7.2 and Acrobat 8/9, to find out if I could.
>
> The results were:
>
> 1)All chapters except one had their master page size set to A4, with 
> the one chapter at the end set to A3. Both versions of Acrobat created 
> the manual but the A3 sized chapters were cropped to A4.
>
> 2)Having set the Acrobat setting in Distiller to A3, it only created 
> the whole document as A3. I tried it again to size to A4, but got the 
> same result as in Number 1.
>
> 3)My colleague tried separating the files. He created the main 
> chapters of the pdf as A4 and created the A3 sized chapter separately, 
> outside the book file. Then he tried to insert the pages, but Acrobat 
> didn't like it.
>
> Does anyone know of a setting that I've missed so that when someone 
> sends a pdf to print, it will automatically print my last chapter as 
> A3, instead of A4?
>
> I thought that due to the nature of Acrobat, it would only create a 
> PDF as one size, not varying sizes, otherwise there would be an option 
> to automatically resize pages.
>
> In the event of the latter, does anyone know of any changes, to 
> support this option, with respect to this in Acrobat 10?
>
> Kind regards
>
> *Claire Wood*
>
> Product Development Technical Author
>
> GE Oil & Gas
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