Distilling Mixed Sizes
Dave Reynolds
dave.reynolds at taitradio.com
Sun Sep 4 14:18:24 PDT 2011
I have done this for years with various Frame books which have maybe a
dozen A4 files and one A3 file. I always select the larger page size
(A3 landscape in this case), print to PS file, then distil to PDF. All
pages come out the right size and orientation.
I've just done some tests with one of my manuals that has a mixture of
A4 and A3 pages. I've found that I have to have Generate Acrobat Data
turned on (box is checked) for the two different page sizes to reproduce
correctly in the PDF. If I deselect this function, all pages are A3 in
the PDF (although in the correct orientation).
This is on Frame 8, Acrobat 7 and Win XP.
Cheers
Dave
Art Campbell wrote, on 3/09/2011 2:22 a.m.:
> 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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