---- Graydon <[email protected]> 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.
Pagemaker is fine with Polish characters. The free version of the convertor is (was) fine with Polish characters. However, since building a new, XP powered machine, the convertor insists on substituting trutype TimesCE with some postscript font that "does not do" Polish characters. Most infuriating and not endearing me at all to either Adobe or Microsoft. -- 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.
