pub to pdf

I

ilyaz

Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so a friend
would be able to read it on his machine without a Publisher. However, what I
got happens to be a document ready for printing (4 pages on one sheet of
paper), not for reading: in the first frame, there are pages 26 and 1, on
the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other common) format
which will make it easy readable?
 
C

Chuck Davis

Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your PDF again,
but watch your settings.
 
I

ilyaz

Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not understand it,
or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was no color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in Publisher or in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other file to a .
PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one installed. So,
the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a PDF "printer".
The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could be opened in the
Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the resulting PDF document
is easy to print on paper, but it's difficult to read on a monitor, since
the order of page is for printing, not reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but nowhere was
there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya
 
J

JoAnn Paules

I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other low-cost/free
programs?
 
I

ilyaz

Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional and
Adobe Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed
on my machine, there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there a
significant difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the
third party one?

Don Schmidt said:
I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


JoAnn Paules said:
I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other
low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



ilyaz said:
Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was no color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in Publisher or in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other file
to a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's difficult to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing (4 pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame, there
are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 
M

Mary Sauer

This is the way I send a booklet if it isn't going to be printed, in Publisher's page
setup, change the document this way, custom, 5.5 x 8.5, landscape, change copies per
page to one. This will make a long PDF document however it can be read in sequence.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

ilyaz said:
Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional and Adobe
Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed on my machine,
there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there a significant
difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the third party one?

Don Schmidt said:
I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


JoAnn Paules said:
I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was no color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in Publisher or in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other file to a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's difficult to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing (4 pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame, there are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 
M

Mary Sauer

I tried that, Don, Publisher wants to print two to a page, so you have to select one
per page. And, yes, the booklet option has to be abandoned.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

Don Schmidt said:
Or, change from booklet to 5.5 x 8.5 sheet. I think it's the booklet
setting that's glitching up his output.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


Mary Sauer said:
This is the way I send a booklet if it isn't going to be printed, in Publisher's page
setup, change the document this way, custom, 5.5 x 8.5, landscape, change copies per
page to one. This will make a long PDF document however it can be read in sequence.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
ilyaz said:
Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional and Adobe
Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed on my machine,
there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there a significant
difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the third party one?

I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was no
color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in Publisher or
in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other file to
a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one
installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's difficult to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not
reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing (4
pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame, there are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 
I

ilyaz

Mary, I'm going to try your suggestion and we'll see what will happen.
Thanks,
Ilya

Mary Sauer said:
I tried that, Don, Publisher wants to print two to a page, so you have to
select one per page. And, yes, the booklet option has to be abandoned.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Don Schmidt said:
Or, change from booklet to 5.5 x 8.5 sheet. I think it's the booklet
setting that's glitching up his output.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


Mary Sauer said:
This is the way I send a booklet if it isn't going to be printed, in Publisher's page
setup, change the document this way, custom, 5.5 x 8.5, landscape,
change copies per
page to one. This will make a long PDF document however it can be read
in sequence.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional
and Adobe
Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed
on my machine,
there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there a significant
difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the third
party one?

I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was
no
color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in
Publisher or
in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other file to
a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one
installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a
PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could
be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's
difficult to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not
reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so
a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing
(4
pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame,
there are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other
common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 
I

ilyaz

Mary,
I did as you suggested. But I also changed the page size to 5.5x8.5 in the
Adobe. The output resulted is exactly what I wanted! Moreover, I set Adobe
to show spread of two pages... Thanks for your suggestions. Helpful as
always.
Ilya

ilyaz said:
Mary, I'm going to try your suggestion and we'll see what will happen.
Thanks,
Ilya

Mary Sauer said:
I tried that, Don, Publisher wants to print two to a page, so you have to
select one per page. And, yes, the booklet option has to be abandoned.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Don Schmidt said:
Or, change from booklet to 5.5 x 8.5 sheet. I think it's the booklet
setting that's glitching up his output.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


This is the way I send a booklet if it isn't going to be printed, in
Publisher's page
setup, change the document this way, custom, 5.5 x 8.5, landscape,
change
copies per
page to one. This will make a long PDF document however it can be read
in
sequence.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional
and
Adobe
Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed
on
my machine,
there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there
a
significant
difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the third
party
one?

I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet
form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other
low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not
understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was
no
color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in
Publisher
or
in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other
file to
a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one
installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a
PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could
be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post,
the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's
difficult
to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not
reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but
nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create
your
PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format,
so a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a
Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing
(4
pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame,
there
are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other
common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 
M

Mary Sauer

Hey, glad it worked... Thanks for the feedback, Ilya, it is appreciated.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

ilyaz said:
Mary,
I did as you suggested. But I also changed the page size to 5.5x8.5 in the Adobe.
The output resulted is exactly what I wanted! Moreover, I set Adobe to show spread
of two pages... Thanks for your suggestions. Helpful as always.
Ilya

ilyaz said:
Mary, I'm going to try your suggestion and we'll see what will happen.
Thanks,
Ilya

Mary Sauer said:
I tried that, Don, Publisher wants to print two to a page, so you have to select
one per page. And, yes, the booklet option has to be abandoned.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Or, change from booklet to 5.5 x 8.5 sheet. I think it's the booklet
setting that's glitching up his output.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


This is the way I send a booklet if it isn't going to be printed, in
Publisher's page
setup, change the document this way, custom, 5.5 x 8.5, landscape, change
copies per
page to one. This will make a long PDF document however it can be read in
sequence.

--
Mary Sauer MS MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/
http://msauer.mvps.org/
news://msnews.microsoft.com
Mary and Don,
to end your guesswork, yes, I have the Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional and
Adobe
Reader 7 installed recently. Therefore, among the printers installed on
my machine,
there is ADOBE PDF.
Thank you for trying to help.
Ilya
P.S. If you'd like more info, I'd be glad to provide. Also, is there a
significant
difference between the original Adobe printer driver or the third party
one?

I don't think it's that Mary. I think he has the file in booklet form.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


I assume you do *not* use Adobe Acrobat but one of the other
low-cost/free
programs?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



Chuck,
either I was not clear describing my problem and you did not
understand
it, or I do not understand what you're talking about.
I use Pub 97 and the whole document is black and white, there was no
color
and I never saw any option for color separation neither in Publisher
or
in
PDF printer. As I know, converting any .doc, .txt, .pub or other
file to
a
. PDF format is done by using a PDF printer driver. I have one
installed.
So, the whole trick of conversion is to send this PUB file to a PDF
"printer". The result is a document saved in PDF format. It could be
opened in the Reader. But, as I mentioned it in my first post, the
resulting PDF document is easy to print on paper, but it's difficult
to
read on a monitor, since the order of page is for printing, not
reading...
I wanted to follow your advice and create another PDF file, but
nowhere
was there any mention or option of color separation...
Ilya

"Chuck Davis" <newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com> wrote in message
Apparently what you "printed" was a color separation. Create your
PDF
again, but watch your settings.
Recently, I "printed" a pub multipage document in PDF format, so a
friend would be able to read it on his machine without a
Publisher.
However, what I got happens to be a document ready for printing (4
pages
on one sheet of paper), not for reading: in the first frame, there
are
pages 26 and 1, on the second - pages 2 and 25, and so on...
Is there a way to save a pub document in PDF (or any other common)
format which will make it easy readable?
 

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