Distilling Mixed Sizes

[Baruch Brodersen]

This topic has been addressed several times the last few months. It can be
done and fully on the template level through postscript textboxes on master
pages, and it can be further automated by incorporating the use of Apply
Master Pages so that content you want on A3 pages will always stay on A3
pages and likewise with the A4 pages.
This method is too much bother for most, who opt to produce separate PDFs
and cobble them together through post-processing efforts.

Here's June's thread:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2011-June/023385.html
Here's July's thread:
http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2011-July/023495.html

Best regards,
Baruch Brodersen

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:15 AM, Herbert Leusink <hleusink at sdl.com> wrote:

> Hello Eduardo,
>
> We've faced a similar problem with mixed A3/A4 pages. FM will use the page
> size of the chapter from which you start printing for all the following
> pages. Two ways to do this:
> - save the book chapter by chapter to PDF and glue the chapters together in
> Acrobat.
> - save the book to PDF, save the chapter(s) with the larger size pages
> separately to PDF, remove the chopped pages from the PDF and replace them
> with large separately saved chapters.
>
> But if anyone knows of a better method, please share it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Herbert Leusink | Technical Consultant | SDL | Structured Content
> Technologies Division | (t) +31 (0)88-735 46 02 | (m) +31 (0)6 11887708
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F.
> Cidade
> Sr.
> Sent: donderdag 1 september 2011 23:03
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Distilling Mixed Sizes
>
> Live from New York!
>
> Good afternoon fellow Frame Templars and Acrobats
>
> I'm looking for that proverbial magic bullet whereby I can distill
> FrameMaker
> pages of
> different sizes without chopping them down to size.
>
> First, the system:
>
> Frame 9 unstructured
> Acrobat 9 Pro
> Windows XP SP3
>
> Next, The setup:
>
> A FrameMaker book, including 13 chapters, 7 appendices, and several key
> indices.
> Mostly a 8.5 X 11 inch with about 6 pages embedded with 8.5 X 14.
>
> After using every setting in Distiller, all pages are distilled into 8.5 X
> 11, literally
> "chopping" off the tops and bottoms of the 8.5 X 14 pages.
>
> I've done this before and didn't change any settings, so I'm thinking there
> has to be a bug
> somewhere either in Acrobat or due to a recent Windows SP3 upgrade.
>
> If there are any suggestions, please let me know.
>
> All the best, standing tall, sword and shield....
>
> Eduardo
>
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