Hi Chris, I'm not assisting on WAMUG mailing list at the present due to a medical problem I'm dealing with … but …
Have you tried rotating just the landscape pages of the PDF in Preview application? You can rotate individual pages in a PDF document using Preview Application. You can use Tools -> Rotate Left (or Rotate Right) to flip the pages around, but the problem with that command is that it flips all the pages, not just the one you’d like to turn. You can also use the toolbar’s Rotate Left and Rotate Right buttons—you might have to use View -> Customise Toolbar to add them if you haven’t done so already. However, they also rotate the entire document. So here’s how to make Preview rotate just the currently-displayed page in your PDF: 1. Hold down the Option key before selecting Rotate Left or Rotate Right (either the toolbar buttons or the menu commands). 2. With the Option key held down, only the current page will rotate. (If you save the document, it will be saved with the single page rotated.) This behaviour isn’t documented in Preview’s help, which is too bad as it’s quite useful. If you are not sure how to combine PDFs into one PDF: In Preview Application: 1. Open the first page / PDF and then View/Sidebar/Show Sidebar. 2. Drag all files / pages to the sidebar in preview. 3. Select all the Side Bar files you want in the pdf. 4. Go to File > Print SELECTED file (under the regular print command) and then save as PDF. Mac OS X 10.6: How To Combine PDF documents Using Preview <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4075> Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 24/10/2010, at 6:15 PM, Chris Burton wrote: > > Hi Wamuggers > > I am in a quandary about how to convert my reports (which are in Word a4 > portrait format but also contain a few landscape pages with tables) to a > single pdf. > At the moment word prints (Print, Save as pdf) about 3 or 4 separate pdf > files and I need it be in one pdf. > I have also tried Adobe distiller (from CS2) but that does not convert due to > an error that I dont understand. > > Do I need to convert the landscape pages to portrait? The explanation maybe > that the landscape pages are also section breaks in the word document. Or is > it possible to combine the seperate pdf files into one single pdf file. > > I have spent way too much time on trying to work this out, so I thought > someone in the mac group maybe able to offer some advice, for which I will be > very grateful indeed. > > Kindest regards > > Chris > > > > MacBook Pro 2.2 ghz with 10.5.8 > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
