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Subject:FW: RE: PDF Conversion Problem, using Word From:"Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:55:41 +1100
Ok, here's what you have to do. Its a COMPLETE pain in the butt. U O me 1
very large beer :-)
1) Install Word and Acrobat.
2) Download the latest PS print driver from Adobe.com
3) Modify the ppd file BEFORE installing the PS printer to include a custom
page size (more info in the archive from a previous posting of mine)
4) Install the PS printer.
5) Ensure the PS printer IS NOT SELECTED AS THE DEFAULT PRINTER. If it is,
you WONT be able to view your document in page layout mode, or print it.
6) Load your document.
7) Change the default printer to the custom PS printer.
8) PDFMaker the document NOT using the PDFMaker printer.
Fun huh? Effectively there is a step 9 - reset the default printer to avoid
making a mistake at step 5 :-)
Steve Hudson , HDK List MVP
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies Pty Ltd (Aus)
EyeSpring - the future of graphics has been created.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cedric Simard
Hi all,
I'm using Word 2000 and Acrobat 5.0.
My Word page size is the following customized page size:
- Width: 19cm and Heigth: 23 cm
I'd simply like to obtain a PDF document with exactly the same size. In the
Default Paper Size of Acrobat Distiller, I have defined the same parameters:
- Width: 19 cm
- Height: 23 cm
I've also played with all others Word and Distilelr options related to page
size I could find, but no way.
Anybody can help?
Thanking you in advance
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