Print PDF prints a file for each section

[Pierre951]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I cannot print PDF my whole document anymore.
It prints one file for each section of the document.
There should be a parameter somewhere
Can someone help
Thanks

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Are you using apple's Print to PDF feature in the Print Menu???
If you are *STOP*.

Instead save your document as a document first. Then go to *Save As..*
in the File menu and choose from drop down list PDF.

That way you will be using MS internally designed *Converter*.

Both Apple's Print to PDF and using the Adobe PDF Print Driver, (both
are version of the adobe PDF print Engine) can not understand Office's
Section and Page Breaks. They had only had about 13-14 years to figure
it out and still can't.

You think after that many years, MS would take adobe to the side and
explain *look this is how Page break code and Section break code works*.
I guess MS figured that adobe if they can design such a program as PDF
would have the smarts to figure it out.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I cannot print PDF my whole document anymore.
It prints one file for each section of the document.
There should be a parameter somewhere
Can someone help
Thanks

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[Elliott Roper]

Once again Philip, you demonstrate that don't have a single clue what
you are talking about.

The problem is Microsoft's. It spits out a new print job whenever a
section break changes margins or orientation. If you don't believe me,
watch your printer monitor panel while printing a file with such
breaks. Or try printing double sided in two passes.
Or watch the print progress dialog "printing page n" sequence restart
every time it hits one of those section breaks.

Are you using apple's Print to PDF feature in the Print Menu???
If you are *STOP*.

Instead save your document as a document first. Then go to *Save As..*
in the File menu and choose from drop down list PDF.

Which version of Word does that? Mine (2004) does not offer PDF as
format in the drop down list. If they have made one for Office 2008,
then it is not before time. If PDFLab can stitch PDFs together
afterward, then MS could have secretly printed the PDFs and stitched
them together, deleted the working fragments and handed a single file
to the unsuspecting user any time they could have spared the couple of
man months that PDFLab's author took.

That way you will be using MS internally designed *Converter*.

Microsoft? Internally? Designed? Oxymoron Alert!

Both Apple's Print to PDF and using the Adobe PDF Print Driver, (both
are version of the adobe PDF print Engine) can not understand Office's
Section and Page Breaks. They had only had about 13-14 years to figure
it out and still can't.

Microsoft hands them separate print jobs. What *are* they supposed to
do? Invoke the Redmond esp module?

You think after that many years, MS would take adobe to the side and
explain *look this is how Page break code and Section break code works*.
I guess MS figured that adobe if they can design such a program as PDF
would have the smarts to figure it out.

Philip. Just stop digging!

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Look I had a document with *Section Breaks* that for years exhibited as
you described. And the same thing with *Page Breaks*

I tried that same document by removing all my inserted returns and
replace with either section breaks and Page breaks.

*For Me the internal converter MS created for 2008 worked*.

Okay let me ask you a question. Maybe your one of the MVP's.

Why the heck does MS have a page break and section break system so
convoluted, that all printers are affected this way., on the Mac Platform.

Is it MS's back handed way of making life miserable for Macintosh Users.
Mac's have been around in some form since the days of the Mac 128K, and
the Fact Mac, until today.

You'd thinks someone would get a clue and figure out how to make the
systems work.


All I know is the *internal PDF Converter* in 2008 works.

Once again Philip, you demonstrate that don't have a single clue what
you are talking about.

The problem is Microsoft's. It spits out a new print job whenever a
section break changes margins or orientation. If you don't believe me,
watch your printer monitor panel while printing a file with such
breaks. Or try printing double sided in two passes.
Or watch the print progress dialog "printing page n" sequence restart
every time it hits one of those section breaks.


Which version of Word does that? Mine (2004) does not offer PDF as
format in the drop down list. If they have made one for Office 2008,
then it is not before time. If PDFLab can stitch PDFs together
afterward, then MS could have secretly printed the PDFs and stitched
them together, deleted the working fragments and handed a single file
to the unsuspecting user any time they could have spared the couple of
man months that PDFLab's author took.
Microsoft? Internally? Designed? Oxymoron Alert!
Microsoft hands them separate print jobs. What *are* they supposed to
do? Invoke the Redmond esp module?


Philip. Just stop digging!

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If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! http://www.vpea.org
http://www.phillipmjones.net
G4-500 Mac 1.5 GB RAM OSX.3.9 G4-1.67 GB PowerBook 17" 2GB RAM OSX.4.11
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[Pierre951]

Thanks for the advices but it doesn't work.
Someone proposed to use PDFLab.
Is that the only way to solve the problem ?

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks for the advices but it doesn't work.
Someone proposed to use PDFLab.
Is that the only way to solve the problem ?

That might have been me. I have been banging my head against that wall
for years. PDFLab and its friends is the most efficient, other than
binning Word and using something like InDesign or LaTeX from the very
beginning. I have done so, plus a little help from Pages. I only use
Word now when collaborating on a document with dinosaur colleagues from
the distant past.
In fact I'm doing such a job at the moment. I'm editing in emacs and
pasting into Word at the last possible moment before sending him his
wretched tracked changes. Blecch!

You can abandon hope straight away if you change page orientation. Go
straight to PDFLab, Do not Pass Go. Do not collect $200. If you have
the patience of Job and extreme persistence, you can try to convince
Word that your margins on every section are the same.

There are a couple of other PDF stitchers out there. I'm not that hung
up on PDFLab, but it does OK for me.

 

[CyberTaz]

As the others have confirmed if margins and/or orientation vary within the
doc it's going to generate multiple PDFs. However, you can join them in
Apple's Preview program...

Just open the PDFs, display the Sidebar in each file window & drag the page
icons from one file to the other. You can select multiple consecutive pages
in the source PDF by using Shift+Click or select multiple non-consecutive
pages by using Command+Click. Drop the selected pages as desired among the
existing pages in the target PDF file.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Pierre951]

Thank you so much Bob... it works and you solved my problem... for tomorrow morning...
Best regards
Pierre Renaut