I've done the PDFs and images into Word thing, and the results have never been good - either the quality of the images is destroyed when you finally print them out (Word wants to redo the images in its own format), or the file size is *horrendous*. Try the above little free app. It works great.
Kickaha
Thanks so much for the link, the app does a great job - mark another one up to Realbasic! I've also used it to join pages scanned from articles that I wanted to archive.
When you say 'nothing wrong with "print to pdf though"', are you saying that the problem is not with OS X but rather with Word?
All the best, DavidH.
yes
(i do not intend to make it more complicated than it is. ) The Macos X build in pdf feature is quite good enough for most purposes. If you like to do serious - speak: large pdf based projects, with a lot of pics inside - than "print to pdf" is probably not the route you should go.
Look, i create pdfs nearly on a daily basis, all from word.app.
page count: aprox 10-120. Works amazingly flawless.
Or creating a pdf file from any webpage ...(thank you kick)
I wouldn't do the same with 10-120 page quarkxpress docs, which contain hundreds of pics inside. Therefore i would go acrobat indeed.
Thanks so much for the link, the app does a great job - mark another one up to Realbasic! I've also used it to join pages scanned from articles that I wanted to archive.
All the best, DavidH.
Oh man, this app is amazing. Why didn't you tell us dumbs earlier?
Notch another one up for Word. When printing to pdf from Word, I use descriptive names that often test the character limit for names (31 characters). However, I use a custom toolbar that contains all the tools in one place that I use frequently, such as 'Paste Special...'. When I print to pdf with this toolbar in use, Word suggests the name 'Custom' in the save dialogue rather than the actual file name modified with the extension '.pdf'. This means of course that I have to type the whole name in again.
Interesting result, a document within a document, each potentially with a set of scroll bars!
Thanks for that, David.8)
Sorry if I might have sounded confusing. But I meant just copy and paste the contents of your Word file into Text Edit and then save the new Text Edit file as a .DOC file.
Sorry if I might have sounded confusing. But I meant just copy and paste the contents of your Word file into Text Edit and then save the new Text Edit file as a .DOC file.
I found this thread while Gooogling this very problem. I'm NOT a mac user typically but my PhD thesis has bene created on one and I (of course) ran into this section break problem. Fun problem that had me very annoyed this morning.
Versions of software:
OS X
Word X
Acrobat 7 Professional
Work-around:
take the document and print preview it with acrobat chosen as the printer. It'll come up in the preview application as three different pdf files. From there you can save as "chapter2-1.pdf" chapter2-2.pdf" etc. you can combine them in acrobat. yay!
I found this thread while Gooogling this very problem. I'm NOT a mac user typically but my PhD thesis has bene created on one and I (of course) ran into this section break problem. Fun problem that had me very annoyed this morning.
Versions of software:
OS X
Word X
Acrobat 7 Professional
Work-around:
take the document and print preview it with acrobat chosen as the printer. It'll come up in the preview application as three different pdf files. From there you can save as "chapter2-1.pdf" chapter2-2.pdf" etc. you can combine them in acrobat. yay!
I hope this helps.
Welcome to AppleInsider!
Give the application 'Combine PDFs' a go, works very well.
I resort to word only if desperate, I use Pages and print straight to PDF. I'm working on a PhD too, hope your's goes well.
I was having the same problem, my Word file was split in two when I converted it to PDF. The problem? My file or manuscript was in Compatibility Mode. The solution was getting the file out of Compatibility Mode by saving it as DocX. Once I did that the file converted into one PDF file. Hope this helps.
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Originally posted by IQatEdo
Hi all
Thanks for the feedback and links. Be interesting to see if this problem can be invoked for other apps that print to multiple pages.
All the best, DavidH.
Finally, it is a section break issue within word indeed. I reproduced that behavior several times. I don't get it yet, but it is a section break issue
Nothing wrong with "print to pdf though."
Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Finally, it is a section break issue within word indeed. I reproduced that behavior several times. I don't get it yet, but it is a section break issue
Nothing wrong with "print to pdf though."
Greetings
When you say 'nothing wrong with "print to pdf though"', are you saying that the problem is not with OS X but rather with Word?
All the best, DavidH.
Originally posted by Kickaha
I can't explain why Word would do that... other than it surprises me not at all. Who's the publisher? Microsoft? Yup. No surprise.
But I can help you with the PDF reordering:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20286
I've done the PDFs and images into Word thing, and the results have never been good - either the quality of the images is destroyed when you finally print them out (Word wants to redo the images in its own format), or the file size is *horrendous*. Try the above little free app. It works great.
Kickaha
Thanks so much for the link, the app does a great job - mark another one up to Realbasic! I've also used it to join pages scanned from articles that I wanted to archive.
All the best, DavidH.
Originally posted by IQatEdo
Greetings
When you say 'nothing wrong with "print to pdf though"', are you saying that the problem is not with OS X but rather with Word?
All the best, DavidH.
yes
(i do not intend to make it more complicated than it is. ) The Macos X build in pdf feature is quite good enough for most purposes. If you like to do serious - speak: large pdf based projects, with a lot of pics inside - than "print to pdf" is probably not the route you should go.
Look, i create pdfs nearly on a daily basis, all from word.app.
page count: aprox 10-120. Works amazingly flawless.
Or creating a pdf file from any webpage ...(thank you kick)
I wouldn't do the same with 10-120 page quarkxpress docs, which contain hundreds of pics inside. Therefore i would go acrobat indeed.
hope that clarifies a bit
Originally posted by IQatEdo
Kickaha
Thanks so much for the link, the app does a great job - mark another one up to Realbasic! I've also used it to join pages scanned from articles that I wanted to archive.
All the best, DavidH.
Oh man, this app is amazing. Why didn't you tell us dumbs earlier?
Dance my monkeys! Daaaaaance!
Actually, I saw this thread, figured someone would have already mentioned it, waded in a bit later, and realized no one had.
Roll on Appleworks!
Originally posted by IQatEdo
Hi Mike
Interesting result, a document within a document, each potentially with a set of scroll bars!
Thanks for that, David.8)
Sorry if I might have sounded confusing. But I meant just copy and paste the contents of your Word file into Text Edit and then save the new Text Edit file as a .DOC file.
Mike
Originally posted by MPMoriarty
Sorry if I might have sounded confusing. But I meant just copy and paste the contents of your Word file into Text Edit and then save the new Text Edit file as a .DOC file.
Mike
Hi Mike
Of course, silly me. Interesting effect though!
David
Versions of software:
OS X
Word X
Acrobat 7 Professional
Work-around:
take the document and print preview it with acrobat chosen as the printer. It'll come up in the preview application as three different pdf files. From there you can save as "chapter2-1.pdf" chapter2-2.pdf" etc. you can combine them in acrobat. yay!
I hope this helps.
I found this thread while Gooogling this very problem. I'm NOT a mac user typically but my PhD thesis has bene created on one and I (of course) ran into this section break problem. Fun problem that had me very annoyed this morning.
Versions of software:
OS X
Word X
Acrobat 7 Professional
Work-around:
take the document and print preview it with acrobat chosen as the printer. It'll come up in the preview application as three different pdf files. From there you can save as "chapter2-1.pdf" chapter2-2.pdf" etc. you can combine them in acrobat. yay!
I hope this helps.
Welcome to AppleInsider!
Give the application 'Combine PDFs' a go, works very well.
I resort to word only if desperate, I use Pages and print straight to PDF. I'm working on a PhD too, hope your's goes well.
Thanks for following up, appreciated!