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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Claire,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There’s a solution for your problem using FrameMaker 10. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The new version of the plug-in collection ‘Finalyser’ (<a href="http://www.finalyser.de/en/finalyser.html">http://www.finalyser.de/en/finalyser.html</a>) supports creating PDFs with books/documents that contain different page orientations and page sizes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There’s a free 30-day trial during which you can try this feature (just activate it under ‘Extended Scripts > PDF tools’).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Be sure to set the page size in the printer settings in FM to the largest page size in your book (A3).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Wood, Claire (GE Oil & Gas)<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011 16:33<br><b>An:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Betreff:</b> PDFs having a mixture of A4 and A3 page sizes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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 lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>The results were:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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 lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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 lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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 lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>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 lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"GE Inspira"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Claire Wood<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Product Development Technical Author<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GE Oil & Gas</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DL: +44 (0)1252 862 264</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>T +44 (0)1252 862 200 (switchboard)</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>E <a href="mailto:claire.wood@ge.com"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>claire.wood@ge.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cody Technology Park, Range Road, Farnborough Hampshire, GU14 0FG, UK</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sondex Wireline Limited</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0065FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0065FF'>GE imagination at work</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>