printing to pdf with changing page orientation

[kiwisi]

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

Hi all,
I have created a document (.docx) that is mostly portrait, but one section has some wide tables so I have made that section landscape, then subsequent sections portrait again. When I go to create a pdf only part of the document is converted - both using save as pdf and print to pdf (Adobe Acrobat 9 (CS3)) e.g. if I save as pdf I get only the pages prior to the landscape section. If I print to pdf I get only the pages after the landscape section.

I thought I could just make the pages portrait and rotate my tables but of course you can't rotate tables in word. They are fairly large and complicated. I have tried copying and pasting them to excel and transposing but that doesn't work withthese tables.

I get the feeling there is a setting somewhere in Word or Acrobat that I just have to tick and all my problems will go away . . .
any ideas?

 

[Elliott Roper]

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

Hi all,
I have created a document (.docx) that is mostly portrait, but one section
has some wide tables so I have made that section landscape, then subsequent
sections portrait again. When I go to create a pdf only part of the document
is converted - both using save as pdf and print to pdf (Adobe Acrobat 9
(CS3)) e.g. if I save as pdf I get only the pages prior to the landscape
section. If I print to pdf I get only the pages after the landscape section.

I thought I could just make the pages portrait and rotate my tables but of
course you can't rotate tables in word. They are fairly large and
complicated. I have tried copying and pasting them to excel and transposing
but that doesn't work withthese tables. Ohh cunning!
I get the feeling there is a setting somewhere in Word or Acrobat that I just
have to tick and all my problems will go away . . .
any ideas?

Nope. It is a famous misfeature. It has lived with Word since, oh
forever.
If you look closer, you will find three pdfs. Portrait, landscape and
portrait. Word splits the print job whenever the sections change
margins. Printing to pdf is the most annoying. You don't see much wrong
when printing to paper, the jobs spit out in the right order. Except
when two people are queueing jobs to the same printer or you are
printing double sided in two passes. Or double sided where one side is
portrait and the other side landscape. (grrr!)
The only way is to stitch the pdfs together afterwards with something
like PDFLab. I've heard Preview.app is supposed to do it, but I have
not yet attempted/succeeded with it. I have long ago abandoned Word for
jobs with big scary tables and margin changes.

 

[John McGhie]

You "can" rotate tables in Word:

1) Select the entire Table and Cut it.

2) Edit>Paste Special>As Picture...

You can then rotate the picture. Not totally satisfactory, but good enough
for most purposes.

Hope this helps

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

Hi all,
I have created a document (.docx) that is mostly portrait, but one section has
some wide tables so I have made that section landscape, then subsequent
sections portrait again. When I go to create a pdf only part of the document
is converted - both using save as pdf and print to pdf (Adobe Acrobat 9 (CS3))
e.g. if I save as pdf I get only the pages prior to the landscape section. If
I print to pdf I get only the pages after the landscape section.

I thought I could just make the pages portrait and rotate my tables but of
course you can't rotate tables in word. They are fairly large and complicated.
I have tried copying and pasting them to excel and transposing but that
doesn't work withthese tables.

I get the feeling there is a setting somewhere in Word or Acrobat that I just
have to tick and all my problems will go away . . .
any ideas?

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