Ok - I DID set the page size in the source doc.... but then had to tell
PDFCREATOR (the program I used Mark downloaded for me) what it was....
Just os you guys understand... what I'm converting with software I
downloaded is just a duplication of an already
published and printed book - (two separate onese, in fact) but the
PDF maker was on LULU and they have
changed how they want you to do things - anyway, no use getting into
that...
I fiddled around more since posting and discovered that when my 6 x 9
doc was used, the PDF creator ignored it
and made it 8 1/2 x 11 - even though I told it in the customized
settings that it was 6 x 9.
HOWEVER -- happily I copied my 6x9 ms and changed the doc dimensions
to one of the stock options (half letter, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2) it came out
right! - since it was a book of poems with large margins I could
easily manipulate the text to the slightly
smaller size format if I wished to republish not through lulu.
THEN - I tried this with my engagement calendar and have not found the
solution...
again I think I have to get to a standardized setting and not use the
custom ones .
But for you guys who were dissing Adobe, I'm not using Adobe except the
reader...
but when I used Elements for an image file it worked perfectly.
thanks for replies...
anyone know where there is a chart showing what all those different size
options are translated into inches in one
tidy place?
ann
Graydon wrote:
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
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