Publisher 2000 conversion to PDF file

[Nitro4]

I made up a business card in Publisher 2000 using a photo and some text. It
looks great but when I try to convert it to a PDF file either by using in
house with Docudesk or sending it out to Zamzar it comes back in a set up of
10 cards on a 8x11 page like I am going to print in on some Avery format. It
must be a setting in my Publisher program but I do not know how to correct
it. Please help

 

[Mary Sauer]

What size are the cards? Four to a page? Are you using Acrobat? Are you
changing the page settings in the print options?

If you are trying to print four to a page, Print, Select the PDF printer, Page
Options button

Side 2.42
Top 0.64
Horizontal Gap 4.13
Vertical Gap .57

If you are trying to print one card per page you will have to setup 3.5 x 2
custom size in your PDF program.

 

[Nitro4]

Mary,
I am trying to make one good PDF copy to send to Overnight prints to print.
My cards are standard 3.5 by 2 in but when and it looks like just one card in
Publisher but when it is opened by Adobe Reader 6.0 it is a sheet of 10

 

[Nitro4]

Dar Mary,
No matter whether I convert it to a pdf on my computer or send it off online
to Zambar when it opens it opens like an Avery Label with 10 cards on it. I
cannot change it once I receive it on Adobe Reader 6.0 do I figure somewhere
in my Publisher it is set to make these multiple images although all I see is
one when I create the card in Publisher 2000. Thanks, I am not real
knowledgable about Publisher

 

[Ed Bennett]

I made up a business card in Publisher 2000 using a photo and some text. It
looks great but when I try to convert it to a PDF file either by using in
house with Docudesk or sending it out to Zamzar it comes back in a set up of
10 cards on a 8x11 page like I am going to print in on some Avery format. It
must be a setting in my Publisher program but I do not know how to correct
it. Please help

You need to change your options under File > Print Setup to print a
single card per page (and, if you want the PDF to be the same size as
the card, to change the paper size in the same place to match the card
size).

 

[Nitro4]

Thanks Ed,
I have the publisher page set to business card 2 by 3.5 but i have not
changed the print settings. I will play with that this evening and see if I
can fix it. Much obliged

 

[Nitro4]

I have checked page set up and it is 2 x 3.5 centered one on a page
landscape. I tried setting the Printing setup as custom, and A4 and full page
and it makes no difference. I tired printing the pub file and although it
looks like it should be one business card it prints 10 images on the page.
My computer is inhabited by aliens and when they find out I have been
talking to you this may be my last transmission. I feel like "the Astronauts
Wife" , you have to be a Johnny Depp fan to get that.

 

[Mary Sauer]

If you have Acrobat, File, Print, Select Adobe PDF, Properties button,
high-light Adobe PDF Page Size, click the Add button. Type a Paper Name, Type
3.5 Width, Height 2.0.
If you are using Centimeters type the numbers that correspond to the business
card size. Use this paper setup to print your card.
If you have a different PDF program, look for a custom page size dialogue.

 

[Nitro4]

Mary,
The problem is not in the pdf printer because if I print the publisher file
it prints ten business cards to the page even when the page set up says it is
a business card and the diagram shows one business card to the page and I set
the printer set up to a business card size in millimeters 148 by 210. So the
problem is not in the conversion to pdf but in the Publisher itself which
prints something entirely different than what it shows. I still think it is
Aliens

 

[John Inzer]

Mary,
The problem is not in the pdf printer because if I print the
publisher file it prints ten business cards to the page even when the
page set up says it is a business card and the diagram shows one
business card to the page and I set the printer set up to a business
card size in millimeters 148 by 210. So the problem is not in the
conversion to pdf but in the Publisher itself which prints something
entirely different than what it shows. I still think it is Aliens

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Could you copy/paste the business card on
a new blank project and make a .pdf from that?

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mary Sauer]

Nitro, I have converted a business card with Publisher 2000 over and over. It
always works... Can you send me your publication? I will convert it for you.

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Mary,
The problem is not in the pdf printer because if I print the publisher file
it prints ten business cards to the page even when the page set up says it is
a business card and the diagram shows one business card to the page and I set
the printer set up to a business card size in millimeters 148 by 210. So the
problem is not in the conversion to pdf but in the Publisher itself which
prints something entirely different than what it shows. I still think it is
Aliens

 

[Mary Sauer]

p.s.

My email address is mary-sauer at columbus.rr.com

--
Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

Mary,
The problem is not in the pdf printer because if I print the publisher file
it prints ten business cards to the page even when the page set up says it is
a business card and the diagram shows one business card to the page and I set
the printer set up to a business card size in millimeters 148 by 210. So the
problem is not in the conversion to pdf but in the Publisher itself which
prints something entirely different than what it shows. I still think it is
Aliens

 

[Ed Bennett]

The problem is not in the pdf printer because if I print the publisher file
it prints ten business cards to the page even when the page set up says it is
a business card and the diagram shows one business card to the page and I set
the printer set up to a business card size in millimeters 148 by 210. So the
problem is not in the conversion to pdf but in the Publisher itself which
prints something entirely different than what it shows. I still think it is
Aliens

What you see when you create your publication is one individual copy.
Obviously if it is set up to print 10-to-a-page then you'll get 10
copies of the publication on one page, but that does not change the size
of the finished business card.

Unfortunately I don't have a copy of Publisher 2000 available to check
the exact menu sequence you need to use, but I guarantee that at least
part of the problem is in the way that the printer driver is configured.

(Part of the problem is that Publisher 2000 depends upon the printer
driver for some aspects of a publication, and the relationship between
the print setup and the page setup can be somewhat tenuous.)

 

[Nitro4]

John and Ed,
I tried to open a New Publisher window and create the card from scratch and
it did the same thing. I think Ed is correct, there is something in the
printer setting or driver settings that change the single looking card
created to a sheet of ten when it is converted or printed. I sent a file to
Mary to see what happens when she converts it. Thanks everyone

 

[Nitro4]

Thanks to Mary, Ed and John for all your effort. Mary was able to convert
the publisher file on her computer so the publisher file was not corrupted.
It must be another setting on my pc that overrides the Publisher print
setting to cause a multiple image. I will keep looking for the problem. I did
use a page set up similar to this on Lotus long ago and maybe that is the
problem. I need to uninstall Lotus anyway. Les