Hi Ronni and others
Thanks very much for all your advice with this. I have now solved the
problem using Preview. What a top program this is and it does a very
good job of combining the pdfs, with out having to rotate the
landscape page.
I save the file to pdf in word, and it makes 3 separate files
I open the first pdf in Preview
I open the second pdf in Preview, and select and drag the pages (from
the sidebar) and slot them in after the last page in the first pdf
sidebar
I then do the same with the third pdf and end up with the complete file
I then save as a new pdf, and also reduce the file size using the
quartz option
This drops the size from 5mb to 1.2mb and it looks good in Adobe reader
I bit of a work around but it suits me
Thanks everyone again for your help and I hope this is of use to others
Chris
PS I tried with pages to save a pdf but it left out a few figures for
some reason
Christopher L.K. Burton
Director
Western Whale Research
PO Box 1076
Dunsborough WA 6281
Mobile: 0419 199 120
Email: [email protected]
On 25/10/2010, at 8:54 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
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
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