One page into four ?

[Peter]

I've used Publisher that comes with Office 2000, to create a 'card',
size is A4, one page. It has four sections, so that when you fold it ,
the effect is a 'card' with front, 2 middle sections and the back.

In addition to printing the card, we want to email it, but of course
not everyone has Publisher, so printed it to a PS printer driver, then
used 'FreePDF' to convert the PS file to PDF. This is a suitable
format to email.

The resultant 'one page' PDF is of course the same layout as
Publisher. Is there any quick/easy way in Publisher, to make the 'one
page' into four seperate pages ?

Peter

 

[Ed Bennett]

The resultant 'one page' PDF is of course the same layout as
Publisher. Is there any quick/easy way in Publisher, to make the 'one
page' into four seperate pages ?

File > Printer Setup > Properties, set the paper size on your PostScript
driver to A6 (if A6 is not available, select Custom, and manually enter 105
x 148mm).
Then go to File > Page Setup and select Full Page.
You should now be able to export four separate pages to your PDF file.

 

[Peter]

Hi Ed,

File > Printer Setup > Properties, set the paper size on your PostScript
driver to A6 (if A6 is not available, select Custom, and manually enter 105
x 148mm).
Then go to File > Page Setup and select Full Page.
You should now be able to export four separate pages to your PDF file.

Thanks for the tips, unfortunately that printer driver didn't have
'custom', others did but they would always convert any colured
graphics to black & white.

However, using your principles, I was able to get a 4 page document,
although the resultant PDF 'pages' do look a bit funny, with a
Publisher 'page' of 4.13" x 5.85" centered on an A4 sized (PDF) page.

The pages all look okay though, and the 2 pages that were 'upside
down' when I used the 'fold card' effect in Publisher, came out the
correct way (rotated 180 degress).

I don't think I can really do any better than the current convert,
being restricted to paper size of A4, and no 'custom' on the paper
size on the printer setup.

Here is what I had to do to get the 4 pages in PDF.

Publisher | File | Page Setup
Special size - Custom - 8.26" x 11.70"
Orientation - Portrait

Publisher | File | Print Setup
A4
Layout - 1 up

Any other sort of settings, either created:

* 4 PDF pages with the same Publisher 'page' being reproduced 4 times
on each page
* 4 PDF pages with the same Publisher 'page' being reproduced 2 times
on each page.
* 3 PDF pages , the first page was page 1 from Publisher, the 2nd page
was pages 2 and 3 from Publisher, and the 3rd PDF page was the final
(4th) page from Publisher.

The computer with Publisher is Win95b, so I really don't think there
would be an updated (suitable) driver that did Postscript, and left
the coloured graphics intact.

I found this article very helpful:

http://kenchiro.tripod.com/howtoPDF.html

Thanks,

Peter

 

[Ed Bennett]

The computer with Publisher is Win95b, so I really don't think there
would be an updated (suitable) driver that did Postscript, and left
the coloured graphics intact.

I would recommend trying PrimoPDF from www.primopdf.com. I don't know if it
works with Windows 95b.

Alternatively, PDFCreator from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
is claimed to work with Windows 95 upwards.

Free PDF software is more readily available than it was when the article you
quote was written (I read that same article, I believe, when I was
investigating PDF creation a good 5 or more years ago)

 

[Peter]

I will checkout those PDF creators links, thanks.

The source of the problem is most likely not being able to specify
'custom' in _that_ particular Win95 printer driver. Whilst I can see
'custom' in other printer drivers on the same computer, they drop all
colour in the PDF, it is the printer driver, not the PDF creator, that
is the restriction.

Thanks,

Peter

 

[Ed Bennett]

Whilst I can see
'custom' in other printer drivers on the same computer, they drop all
colour in the PDF, it is the printer driver, not the PDF creator, that
is the restriction.

These PDF creators all add their OWN custom printer drivers. I'm pretty
sure that PrimoPDF has a Custom option in the printer driver it adds, not so
sure about PDFCreator.

 

[Peter]

Okay, I will try PrimoPDF and see if it installs/works on Win95.

Thanks,

Peter

 

[Peter]

Hmm, I guess this post says it all:

http://forums.primopdf.com/showthread.php?t=497&highlight=win95

will try the one you mentioned from Sourceforge.

Peter