Distilling Mixed Sizes

Fri Sep 2 08:01:28 PDT 2011

And if you want to print a hardcopy?

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think the easiest way to go is just to pick the largest page size in
> Acrobat when you distill and let the whole book go.
> Reader automatically resizes so that the page zoom fills the available
> window real estate.
>
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Baruch Brodersen <baruch at technitext.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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