Hi Claire,
There's a solution for your problem using FrameMaker 10. The new version of the plug-in collection 'Finalyser' (http://www.finalyser.de/en/finalyser.html) supports creating PDFs with books/documents that contain different page orientations and page sizes. There's a free 30-day trial during which you can try this feature (just activate it under 'Extended Scripts > PDF tools'). Be sure to set the page size in the printer settings in FM to the largest page size in your book (A3). - Maike Von: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] Im Auftrag von Wood, Claire (GE Oil & Gas) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011 16:33 An: framers@lists.frameusers.com Betreff: PDFs having a mixture of A4 and A3 page sizes Dear all I was recently asked to test whether we could produce a PDF with mixed page sizes. I did some experimentation with a colleague using Framemaker 7.2 and Acrobat 8/9, to find out if I could. The results were: 1) All chapters except one had their master page size set to A4, with the one chapter at the end set to A3. Both versions of Acrobat created the manual but the A3 sized chapters were cropped to A4. 2) Having set the Acrobat setting in Distiller to A3, it only created the whole document as A3. I tried it again to size to A4, but got the same result as in Number 1. 3) My colleague tried separating the files. He created the main chapters of the pdf as A4 and created the A3 sized chapter separately, outside the book file. Then he tried to insert the pages, but Acrobat didn't like it. Does anyone know of a setting that I've missed so that when someone sends a pdf to print, it will automatically print my last chapter as A3, instead of A4? I thought that due to the nature of Acrobat, it would only create a PDF as one size, not varying sizes, otherwise there would be an option to automatically resize pages. In the event of the latter, does anyone know of any changes, to support this option, with respect to this in Acrobat 10? Kind regards Claire Wood Product Development Technical Author GE Oil & Gas DL: +44 (0)1252 862 264 T +44 (0)1252 862 200 (switchboard) E claire.w...@ge.com <mailto:claire.w...@ge.com> Cody Technology Park, Range Road, Farnborough Hampshire, GU14 0FG, UK Sondex Wireline Limited GE imagination at work
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