Any way of sucking it into say, Photoshop and printing it, or does that have the same prob?
On 10/06/2011, at 1:34 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > So I've known for some time that Fin08 Mac has a bug that it prints blank > pages under certain conditions. The way to work around it is to print to PDF > with the Generic Postscript driver and then print the PDF with the proper > printer driver. Here is how this bit me hard. > > I have a 10x13 score that is too many pages to print as a foldover booklet, > so I would like to position the image on a 11x17 sheet to print on > individual sheets and then crop it down. Seems like a piece of cake, right. > Here is where I entered the Twilight Zone. > > I can print the document correctly using my printer driver if the page size > is 10x13. However, if the page size is 11x17 it prints blank. Weird, huh? > (Remember, the image is identical in both.) > > The catch-22 is that for this particular document I have to print to a > postscript file then convert that to PDF, due to embedded EPS images. If I > print to ps file using the Generic Postscript driver, it produces a garbled > result. The Generic Postscript driver cannot print the file. > > Hence, it is impossible to print this file on 11x17 paper. I'm going to have > to print it as if it were a foldover booklet, but then cut the booklet in > half. It will work, but it is a much more manual process with my printer. > Sometimes I think computers are the devil's spawn. > > I have messed with both Preview and Adobe Reader, but I cannot get either of > them to take my current 10x13 file and impose it onto 11x17 pages in such a > way that I can print it double-sided and crop it down. This seems like such > a no-brainer tool, I can't believe it isn't out there. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale –––––––––––––– Graeme Gerrard www.resonant.com.au 02 6494 5387 / 0414 396 754 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
