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Re: Making one PDF from a Pagemaker Book of Publications
Subject:Re: Making one PDF from a Pagemaker Book of Publications From:Sara Schertz <SSchertz -at- INTERFACESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:05:25 -0500
I ran into the same problem a few weeks ago. I solved it by changing an
option in the Export to PDF box so that it just made the postscript
file, then I pulled up distiller and created the PDF separately.
I don't remember the exact name of the option -- somewhere in that
dialog there should be a choice to just generate the ps.
I have no idea why doing the whole thing in one giant step doesn't work.
I assumed it was due to the size of my book -- 24 PM files, totalling
over 300 pages.
Hope this helps.
Sara Schertz
Interface Software, Inc.
sschertz -at- interfacesoftware -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Johnson [mailto:michaelj -at- OECMED -dot- COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 3:09 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Making one PDF from a Pagemaker Book of Publications
>
>
> Greetings from a cloudy, windy Salt Lake City!
>
> I have a question for technical writers currently using PageMaker 6.5:
>
> On page 443, the PageMaker 6.5 manuals states that you can
> generate a =
> single PDF from several PageMaker publications by gathering them =
> together using the Utilities>Book command, and then using the =
> File>Export>Adobe PDF command to make the PDF.
>
> While I get great results generating a single PDF from a single =
> publication, I can't generate a PDF from a PageMaker book of =
> publications. It looks to me like the Postscript file gets
> made, but =
> Distiller dies trying to make the PDF and generates an error
> log file =
> that I can't decipher.
>
> I know PageMaker assembles the book of publications because I can =
> generate a full index and TOC.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Johnson
> Michaelj -at- oecmed -dot- com
> Speaking for myself and not OEC Medical Systems
>
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