On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:44:28PM +0100, mike wilson scripsit: > ann sanfedele wrote: [snip] >> oh, btw, I also had "cute PDF" on my computer and tried it with that >> and the same thing happened... >> >> I'm stumped
You probably have to set the page size in the source document -- which I presume is a Word file -- rather than in the PDF converter, because the page size in the source will over-ride the converter. (which is sensible, because the converter can't reflow text for different page sizes.) I'd suggest OpenOffice; it's free, has a good page styles model, and a built-in PDF converter. > Pffft. I'm trying to create a pdf of an environmental manual in > Polish from an Adobe Pagemaker (notice a link there?) file. The > trial version of the software I have worked pefectly, albeit with a > strapline. The paid-for version (having worked on my previous > machine) now insists on producing gobbledegook from the specifically > Polish characters. _If only_ I had a paper size issue..... Somewhere, probably, you need to find the switch to set the _system default encoding_ to Unicode, rather than the Windows default US-English. (It might be a Pagemaker-specific switch, additionally or instead.) Once you've done that, Pagemaker should (stress "should") be fine with Polish characters. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
