Saving multi page doc as pdf

[Martin Nelson]

I have no idea if this qualifies as a Word problem, but I've been having
such good luck on these sites the last couple of days, I figured I'd take a
shot.

I've got a two-page resume I like to attach to email as a pdf. So I open it
in Word, select Print, select Save as PDF and it makes two documents, one
for each page. Is that simply the nature of the beast, is it a bug and if so
is there a work-around or am I doing something wrong?

Or, you know, is it a question I have no place asking on this site?

--
Martin

I'm running
Macintosh G4, Dual 800
1 GB RAM, OS X.2.8
MS Office X Service Release 1

 

[Bern]

I'm unsure about making a PDF in OS version 10.2.8. In 10.3.9 a single
two page Word doc converts into a single two page PDF. I don't
remember how making PDFs in 10.2.8 worked.

For the time being get PDFLab (it's free). It will join the two back
into one. For the long haul, spend the bucks and get 10.4 and that
issue will disappear!

Bern

 

[Elliott Roper]

I have no idea if this qualifies as a Word problem, but I've been having
such good luck on these sites the last couple of days, I figured I'd take a
shot.

I've got a two-page resume I like to attach to email as a pdf. So I open it
in Word, select Print, select Save as PDF and it makes two documents, one
for each page. Is that simply the nature of the beast, is it a bug and if so
is there a work-around or am I doing something wrong?

Or, you know, is it a question I have no place asking on this site?

No, that is a perfect question for this site.
We know this to be true because it has been asked so often ;-)

Word will split PDF output whenever it has the slightest suspicion that
the page size or orientation has changed.

You could check for section breaks, header or footer changes.
Or more simply, grab a piece of freeware that glues 'em back together
again.
Google the group for PDF for the whole gory history.

 

[Martin Nelson]

For the time being get PDFLab (it's free). It will join the two back
into one. For the long haul, spend the bucks and get 10.4 and that
issue will disappear!

Bummer. I checked it out and it requires OS X.3. I'm running X.2.8 because
some software I can't afford to upgrade won't run on any more recent OS.
Thanks anyway Bern.

Martin

 

[Martin Nelson]

This, from Faith, fixed it:

if you do not have any page layout changes (margins, orientation etc),
selecting the whole document (cmd+a) then going to page setup and just
clicking okay may help your problem.

if not, you can use combine pdfs freeware to merge pdfs generated

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml

 

[Clive Huggan]

This, from Faith, fixed it:

if you do not have any page layout changes (margins, orientation etc),
selecting the whole document (cmd+a) then going to page setup and just
clicking okay may help your problem.

if not, you can use combine pdfs freeware to merge pdfs generated

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml

Martin, Thank you for giving us this feedback -- it's valuable!

Clive Huggan
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