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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>The results were:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>In the event of the latter, does anyone know of any changes, to support this option, with respect to this in Acrobat 10?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"GE Inspira","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Claire Wood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Product Development Technical Author<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>GE Oil & Gas</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>DL: +44 (0)1252 862 264</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>T +44 (0)1252 862 200 (switchboard)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>E <a href="mailto:claire.wood@ge.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'>claire.wood@ge.com</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Cody Technology Park, Range Road, Farnborough Hampshire, GU14 0FG, UK</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Sondex Wireline Limited</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0065FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0065FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>GE imagination at work</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>