Printing to a post script file

[andy]

I have about a 100-page Word document I'm trying to output as a post
script (.ps) file so that I can distill it into a PDF. Every time I do
so, it breaks the resulting post script into three different files. The
first one always cuts off at p. 78, then I get two smaller ones.

Any ideas why it won't output this as one file?

 

[andy]

Yeah, I need the section breaks. The strange thing is, I have a lot of
section breaks in the document, even some where the margins change from
one section to the next, but the file only gets split into 3 PDFs. And
it isn't splitting on section breaks that have margin changes. Weird.

Thanks for the help...

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Andy:

It's not necessarily the "margin changes" that cause the splits. It happens
when Apple CUPS print service believes the change made in the section break
would require the printer to change to a different paper stock.

Regrettably, "margin changes" is one of the settings that can produce this
effect: but it's not the only one.

Cheers

Yeah, I need the section breaks. The strange thing is, I have a lot of
section breaks in the document, even some where the margins change from
one section to the next, but the file only gets split into 3 PDFs. And
it isn't splitting on section breaks that have margin changes. Weird.

Thanks for the help...

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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi Andy:

It's not necessarily the "margin changes" that cause the splits. It happens
when Apple CUPS print service believes the change made in the section break
would require the printer to change to a different paper stock.

Which explains why it prints in one pass after stitching in an external
application?
And explains why other applications can print willy nilly with page
orientation changes and any kind of margin change?

I'd go for an explantion that includes the words "Word mistakenly tells
CUPS..."

Whoever's fault it is, it is a bug [1]. Anytime I want to print 2-up
and double sided, I have to pass Word's output to Postscript to rid the
work of Word's eps preview errors, Preview to convert ps to PDF. PDFlab
to join the fragments up, then Cheap Imposter to do the 2-up properly.

They have the gall to call it an office *productivity* tool.

1. As per your recent thread, I nominate myself as *the* user.

 

[Chris Ridd]

It is not like Microsoft had the rug pulled out from under their feet.
Word and Word alone has misbehaved like this since the first v.X

They shipped with these bugs in v.X

Just as well Apple and the MBU guys talk to each other, isn't it?

Cheers,

Chris

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Chris:

Communication between Apple and Mac BU is generally a lot better than I
sometimes make it sound

However, when it's "embarrassing" and "expensive" (as this one is...) both
companies fall back on the procedure in the Manual of Tact and Charm for
Computer Companies:

"We will tell you only what you ask, except when it would involve admitting
something for which we might get sued, in which case Legal Department will
not allow us to tell you at all!"

In the normal course of events, either company will pick up the phone to the
other. They have even been known to share the odd cleansing ale together...

I'm pretty confident that the next version of Word on the Mac will not
suffer from this problem

Hope this helps

Just as well Apple and the MBU guys talk to each other, isn't it?

Cheers,

Chris

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